THE 


CHHRTER  RHD  REUSED  ORDINSNCES 


CITY  OF  NEW  BRITAIN 


CHARTER  OF  THE  WITTER  WORKS, 


STANDING  RULES  OF' THE  COMMON  COUNCIL. 


Published  by  order  of  Common    Council,  February  19,  1896. 


NEW  BRITAIN: 

PRESS  OF  HERALD  PUBLISHING  CO. 


CHARTER 

OF   THE 

CITY  OF  NEW  BRITAIN. 


2012188 


CHAR  TER 


OF    THE 


CITY  OF  NEW  BRITAIN. 


!S  TOOT]  ON 

1.  Limits  of  city. 

2.  Division  Jnto  wards, 
8.     Who  entitled  to  vote. 

4.  Annual    election    and    officers 

elected  at. 

5.  Vacancies  in  office,  how  filled. 
(>.    Voting  lists. 

7.  Registrars  and  their  duties. 

8.  Voting  places  and   conduct  of 

elections. 

9.  City  officers  to  be  sworn. 

10.  Mayor. 

11.  Obstructing  the  Mayor. 

12.  Pay  of  Militia  called    out    by 

Mayor. 

13.  Vacancy  in  office  of  Mayor. 

14.  City  Clerk. 

15.  Assistant  Clerk. 
1(5.    Treasurer. 

17.  Auditor. 

18.  Sheriff. 
IS).    Collector. 

i'n.    ( )fficers  to  give  bonds. 

21.  Taxes,  how  laid. 

22.  Common  Council. 

2:5.    Subjects  of  city  ordinances. 

24.  Shuttle  Meadow  lake. 
2").     Hoard  of  health. 

-'11.    Approval     of    ordinances    by 

Mayor. 
'27.     By  voters  of  the  city. 

25.  Members  of  council  not  to  hold 

lucrative  city  offices,  etc. 
2S).  Appropriations,  how  made. 
30.  Building  lines, 


SECTION 

31.  Sewers  and  drains, 

32.  Appropriation  of  streams. 

33.  Damages  and  benefits  for  same. 

34.  Committee  of  freeholders. 

35.  Benefits,  a  lien  on  property. 
3(5.    Sidewalks  and  gutters,. 

37.  To  be  laid  by  owners  of  land. 

38.  Ten  year  grade  limitation. 

39.  Proceedings  if  owner  neglects 

to  lay  walk,  etc. 

40.  Streets  and  highway. 

41.  Highway  tax. 

42.  Layout  of  streets  and  building 

lines. 

43.  Damages  and  benefits, 

44.  Board  of  street  commissioners. 

45.  To  assess  benefits  and  damages. 

46.  To  be  sworn. 

47.  Vacancies  in  said  board,    how 

filled. 

48.  Compensation. 

49.  Mayor  can  remove  for  cause. 

50.  Method    of  precedure    of    said 

board. 

51.  Sewer  assessments. 

52.  Limit  of  sewer  assessments. 

53.  Benefits  to  be  a  lien  on  prop- 

erty. 

54.  Liens. 

55.  Appeals  from  assessments. 

5f>.    Appeals,  when  and  how  taken. 

57.  Re-assessments,  when  made. 

58.  Notice  of    re-assessment    pro- 

ceedings. 

59.  Powers  of  Judges  and  costs. 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTKIt. 


SKCTION 
00.    City  Clerk  to  keep  papers  on 

file. 

61.    City  court. 
(52     Judge  of  city  court. 
W.     Substitute  judge. 
64.    Clerk  of  city  court. 
(55.    Corporation  counsel. 
(5(5.     Process  in  city  court. 
(57.    Service  of  process. 
(IS.    Accommodations       for      city 

court. 
mi.    Salary  of  Judge. 

70.  Jury  trials. 

71.  Appointment  of  jurors. 

72.  Police  court. 

73.  Powers    of  justices   restricted. 

74.  Judge  not  disqualified  by  resi- 

dence. 

75.  Jurisdiction  of  police  court. 

76.  Clerk  of  police  court. 

77.  Accommodations    for    police 

court. 

78.  Presentments  or    complaints. 

79.  Adjournment  of  trial. 

80.  Police  court,  fees  and  costs. 

81.  Disposition  of  fines  and  costs. 

82.  Forfeited  bonds. 

83.  Commitment  to  jail  or  work- 

house. 

84.  To  reform  school,  etc, 

So.    Service  of  criminal  process. 
8«.    Arrest  without  warrant. 
87.    Jurisdiction  In  Southlngton. 
8H.    Not    to   affect    the    powers    of 

Southlngton  officers. 
89.    Suspension  of  judgment. 


SECTION 
90.    Reduction    or  disallowance  of 

fees, 
'.il.    Sureties  of  the  peace. 

92.  Fines  and  forfeitures,  how  re- 

covered. 

93.  Water  commissioner*. 

94.  Water  bonds. 

95.  Sewer  commissioners. 

SH5.    To  be  trustees  of  bonds,  etc. 

97.  Their  powers  and  duties. 

98.  Police  commissioners,  appoint- 

ment of. 

99.  Powers  and  duties. 

100.  May  summon  witnesses. 

101.  Service  of  subpoena. 

102.  May  issue  capias. 

103.  Fees  of  witnesses. 

104.  Council  to  fix  salaries  of  police- 

men, etc. 

1(>5.     Fire   commissioners,   appoint- 
ment of, 

KXi.     Powers  and  duties. 

107.  Present    members     to     be    re- 

tained. 

108.  Pay  of  police  and  tire  commis- 

sioners. 

109.  Power    to    purchase;   personal 
-  liability. 

110.  Qualification. 

111.  Present    members,     term    of 

office. 

112.  Water,  sewer,   police  and    tire 

commissioners. 
118.    Council  to  fix  salaries. 

114.  Forms. 

115.  Inconsistent  acts  repealed. 

116.  Act  when  to  take  effect. 


Resolved  by  this  Assembly : 

city  limits.  SECTION!.  All  the  inhabitants,  being  electors  of  this  state, 
dwelling  in  the  town  of  New  Britain,  within  the  following  limits, 
to  wit : 

Commencing  at  a  stone  monument  three  hundred  rods  due 
west  from  the  center  front  wall  of  the  high  school  building  in  said 
town  ;  thence  running  due  north  in  a  straight  line  three  hundred 
and  seventy-five  (375)  rods  and  ten  and  one-half  feet  to  a  monu- 
ment ;  thence  at  right  angles  due  east  in  a  straight  line  six 
hundred  (600)  rods  to  a  monument ;  thence  due  south  in  a 
straight  line  parallel  with  said  west  line  to  the  southerly  limits 
of  said  town  at  a  stone  monument ;  thence  westerly  on  said 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER. 

southerly  limit  of  said  town  to  a  stone  monument ;  thence  due 
north  in  a  straight  line  parallel  with  said  east  line  to  the  place 
of  the  beginning,  being  the  community  hitherto  incorporated  and 
known  under  the  name  of  the  City  of  New  Britain  are  hereby 
constituted  and  declared  to  be  and  remain  forever  one  and  the 
same  body  politic  and  corporate,  by  the  name  of  the  City  of  New  corporate 
Britain  ;  to  have  perpetual  succession,  to  be  one  person  capable 
of  suing  and  being  sued,  pleading  and  being  impleaded  in  all  Powers, 
suits  whatsoever,  and  of  purchasing,  holding,  and  conveying  any 
estate,  real  and  personal,  to  have  a  common  seal,  with  power  to 
change  the  same,  and  to  hold  and  exercise  such  powers  and 
privileges  exercised  by  said  city  as  are  perpetuated  herein,  to- 
gether with  all  the  additional  powers  and  privileges  herein  and 
hereby  conferred. 

SEC.  2.  The  City  of  New  Britain  is  and  shall  continue  to  be 
divided  into  six  wards,  designated  and  bounded  as  follows,  to 
wit : 

First  ward  limits  :    So  much  of  said  city  as  lies  southerly  and  First  ward 

limits. 

westerly  of  a  line  commencing  at  the  western  limit  of  said  city 
and  in  the  center  of  Hart  street,  so  called  ;  thence  easterly  on 
the  center  of  said  Hart  street  to  the  center  of  Arch  street;  thence 
northerly  on  the  centt-r  line  of  said  Arch  street  to  the  center  of 
Main  street ;  thence  on  the  center  line  of  said  Main  street  to  the 
center  of  South  Main  street ;  thence  on  the  center  line  of  said 
South  Main  street  to  the  southern  limit  of  said  city,  shall  consti- 
tute and  remain  the  first  ward. 

Second  ward  limits :    So  much  of  said   city  as  lies    easterh-  Second  ward 

limits. 

and  southerly  of  a  line  commencing  at  the  southern  limit  of  said 
city  and  in  the  center  of  South  Main  street,  running  thence  in 
the  easterly  boundary  of  said  first  ward  to  the  center  of  Park 
street ;  thence  easterly  on  the  center  line  of  said  Park  street 
continuing  in  a  straight  line  to  the  eastern  limits  of  said  city, 
shall  constitute  and  remain  the  second  ward. 
Third  ward  limits  :  So  much  of  said  city  as  lies  northerly,  east-  Third  ward 

,  .  .  .  limits. 

erly,  and  southerly  of  a  line  commencing  at  the  same  point  in 
the  western  limit  of  said  city  heretofore  described  as  the  point 
where  the  boundary  of  the  first  ward  commences,  running  thence 
on  the  northerly  boundary  of  said  first  ward  to  the  center  of  Arch 
street ;  thence  northerly  along  the  westerly  boundary  of  said 
first  ward  to  the  center  of  Main  street ;  thence  northerly  along 


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NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER. 


Fifth  ward 
limits. 


the  center  line  of  said  Main  street  to  the  center  of  Myrtle  street ; 
thence  westerly  along  the  center  line  of  said  Myrtle  street  con- 
tinuing in  a  straight  line  to  the  western  limit  of  said  city,  shall 
Fourth  ward  constitute  and  remain  the  third  ward. 

limits. 

Fourth  ward  limits  :  So  much  of  said  city  as  lies  westerly, 
northerly,  and  southerly  of  a  line  commencing  at  the  same  point 
in  the  easterly  limit  of  said  city  heretofore  described  as  the  point 
where  the  boundary  of  the  second  ward  ends  ;  thence  running  on 
the  northerly  boundary  of  the  second  ward  to  the  center  of  Main 
street ;  thence  northerly  along  the  northerly  boundary  of  the 
first  ward  and  the  easterly  boundary  of  the  third  ward  and  on 
the  center  line  of  said  Main  street  to  the  center  of  East  Main 
street ;  thence  running  easterly  on  the  center  line  of  East  Main 
street  to  the  eastern  limit  of  said  city,  shall  constitute  and  re- 
main the  fourth  ward. 

Fifth  ward  limits :  So  much  of  said  city  as  lies  northerly  and 
westerly  of  a  line  commencing  at  the  same  point  in  the  western 
limit  of  said  city  where  the  boundary  of  the  third  ward  ends, 
running  thence  easterly  on  the  northerly  boundary  of  the  third 
ward  to  the  center  of  Main  street ;  thence  northerly  along  the 
westerly  boundary  of  the  fourth  ward  and  the  center  line  of  Main 
street  to  the  center  of  North  street ;  thence  easterly  on  the  cen- 
ter line  of  North  street  to  the  center  of  Sexton  street ;  thence 
northerly  on  the  center  line  of  said  Sexton  street  to  the  center 
of  Lasalle  street,  so  called  ;  thence  westerly  on  the  center  line 
of  Lasalle  street  to  the  center  of  McClintock  road,  so  called  ; 
thence  northerly  on  the  center  line  of  said  McClintock  road,  so 
called,  to  the  northerly  limit  of  said  city,  shall  constitute  and  re- 
main the  fifth  ward. 

Sixth  ward  limits :  So  much  of  said  city  as  lies  northerly  and 
westerly  of  a  line  commencing  at  the  same  point  in  the  eastern 
limit  of  said  city  where  the  boundary  of  the  fourth  ward  ends  ; 
thence  running  westerly  on  the  northerly  boundary  of  the  fourth 
ward  to  the  center  of  Main  street ;  thence  norther!}7  on  the  east- 
erly boundary  of  the  fifth  ward  to  the  center  of  North  street ; 
thence  easterly  on  the  southerly  boundary  of  the  fifth  ward  to  the 
center  of  Sexton  street ;  thence  northerly  on  the  easterly  bound- 
ary of  said  fifth  ward  to  the  center  of  Lasalle  street,  so  called ; 
thence  westerly  on  the  northerty  boundary  of  said  fifth  ward  to 
the  center  of  McClintock  road,  so  called  ;  thence  northerly  on 


Sixth  ward 
limits. 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER.  1  1 

the  easterly  boundary  of  said  fifth  ward  to  the  northern  limits  of 
said  city,  shall  constitute  and  remain  the  sixth  ward. 

SEC.  3.  Every  elector  of  this  state  who  shall  have  statedly 
and  continuously  resided  in  said  city  six  months  shall  thereafter,  tions. 
while  such  residence  continues,  and  while  his  name  is  registered 
as  hereinafter  provided,  be  entitled  to  vote  at  all  meetings  of 
said  city  and  all  meetings  of  the  ward  in  which  he  may  reside  ; 
provided,  that  whenever  any  such  voter  shall  have  changed  his 
residence  from  one  ward  into  another  during  the  thirty  days  pre- 
ceding a  meeting  for  the  election  of  any  officer,  or  officers,  he 
shall  not  be  entitled  to  vote  at  such  meeting  in  the  latter  ward, 
but  shall  be  entitled  to  vote  at  such  meeting  in  the  former  ward 
in  the  same  manner  as  though  he  had  not  removed  therefrom. 

SEC.  4.     At  the  annual  election  held  on  the  second   Tuesday  ^ons!al  elec" 
of  April,  A.  D.   1896,   and  every  second  year  thereafter,  the 
voters  of  the  cit}r  shall  elect  from  their  number,  by  plurality  of 
ballots,    a  mayor,   clerk,  treasurer,   auditor,   collector,   and  acifcy°mcers- 
sheriff  for  the  city  at  large,  who  shall  hold  their   respective  of- 
fices for  the  term  of  two  years  commencing  at  noon  of  the  third 
Tuesday  of  April,   and  until  their  successors  are  elected  and 
qualified. 

On  the  second  Tuesday  of  April,  A.  D.  1896,  the  voters  re- 
sident in  each  of  said  wards  shall  elect,  by  plurality  of  ballots 
from  among  their  number,  two  councilmen  for  each  ward,  who  ^"""^ 
shall  hold  their  respective  offices  for  one  year,  commencing  at 
noon  on  the  third  Tuesday  of  said  April,  and  until  their  suc- 
cessors are  elected  and  qualified. 

On  the  second  Tuesday  of  April,  A.  D.  1896,  the  voters  re- 
sident in  each  ward  of  said  city  shall  elect,  by  plurality  of  bal- 
lots from  among  their  number,  two  councilmen  for  each  ward, 
who  shall  hold  their  respective  offices  for  the  term  of  two  years 
commencing  at  noon  of  the  third  Tuesday  of  said  April,  and 
until  their  successors  are  elected  and  qualified. 

At  the  elections  hereinbefore  specified  to  be  held  on  the  second 
Tuesday  of  April,  A.  D.  1896,  the  ballots  shall  specify  the 
councilmen  voted  for  for  one  year,  and  the  councilmen  voted  for 
for  two  years,  and  annually  thereafter,  two  councilmen  shall  be 
elected  from  each  ward,  to  hold  their  offices  for  the  term  of  two 
years  from  and  after  the  third  Tuesday  of  April  at  noon  next 
Succeeding  said  annual  election,  and  until  their  successors  are 
elected  and  qualified. 


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NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER. 


First,  third 
and  fifth 
ward  alder- 
men, when 
elected. 


foeurthdand          On  said  second  Tuesday  of  April,  A.  D.  1896,  and  biennially 
sixth  ward      thereafter,  the  voters  resident  in  the  second,  fourth,  and  sixth 

aldermen, 

when  elected,  wards  of  said  city  shall  elect,  by  plurality  of  ballots  from  among 
their  number,  one  alderman  in  each  of  said  wards,  who  shall  hold 
their  respective  offices  for  the  term  of  two  years  commencing  at 
noon  of  the  third  Tuesday  of  April  next  succeeding  said  annual 
election,  and  until  their  successors  are  elected  and  qualified. 

On  the  second  Tuesday  of  April,  A.  D.  1896,  the  voters  re- 
sident in  the  first,  third,  and  fifth  wards  of  said  city  shall  elect, 
by  plurality  of  ballots  from  among  their  number,  one  alderman 
in  each  of  said  wards,  who  shall  hold  their  offices  for  the  term 
of  one  year,  commencing  at  noon  of  the  third  Tuesday  of  April, 
A.  D.  1896,  and  until  their  successors  are  elected  and  qualified. 
And  on  the  second  Tuesday  of  April,  1897,  and  biennially 
thereafter,  the  voters  resident  in  the  first,  third,  and  fifth  wards 
shall  elect,  by  plurality  of  ballots  from  among  their  number,  one 
alderman  in  each  of  said  wards,  who  shall  hold  their  respective 
offices  for  the  term  of  two  years  from  and  after  the  third  Tues- 
day of  April  at  noon  next  succeeding  said  annual  election,  and 
until  their  successors  are  elected  and  qualified. 

At  the  election  held  on  the  second  Monday  of  April  1895, 
under  the  provisions  of  the  present  city  charter,  the  city  officers, 
including  aldermen  and  councilmen,  then  elected,  shall  hold 
office  for  the  term  of  one  year  from  and  after  the  third  Monday 
of  April,  1895,  and  until  their  successors  are  elected  and  quali- 
fied. 

All  officers  elected  by  the  city  at  large  shall  be  residents  of 
said  city,  and  all  officers  of  the  several  wards  shall  be  residents  of 
such  wards,  and  shall  vacate  their  offices  by  removal  therefrom. 

SEC.  5.  Whenever  at  any  such  meeting  there  shall  be  no 
election  to  an  office,  by  reason  of  a  tie  vote,  then  said  meeting 
shall  stand  adjourned  to  the  next  following  Tuesday  at  the  same 
hour  as  when  first  held,  and  the  election  to  fill  such  office  shall 
be  proceeded  with  in  the  same  manner  and  upon  the  same  reg- 
istry list  as  on  said  first  day. 

When  any  vacancy  shall  occur  in  any  elective  office  of  said 
city,  the  common  council  shall  fill  said  vacancy ;  if  in  the  office 
of  mayor,  from  one  of  the  aldermen  of  said  city  ;  if  in  the  board 
of  common  council,  from  the  electors  of  the  ward  in  said  city 
from  which  the  former  incumbent  of  said  office  was  chosen  :  if 


Residence  of 
city  officers. 


Vacancy  on 
tie  vote,  how 
filled. 


Vacancy  in 
elective  of- 
fice, how 
filled. 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER.  13 

in  any  other  elective  office,  from  the  electors  of  said  city  ;  a 
plurality  of  ballots  shall  be  sufficient  to  elect.  Any  person  or 
persons  so  elected  shall  fill  the  unexpired  term  and  perform  all 
the  duties  pertaining  to  said  office.  All  meetings  for  the  pur- 
pose of  filling  any  such  vacancy  shall  be  called  and  warned  by 
the  mayor  of  said  city  for  that  purpose,  excepting  in  case  the 
vacancy  to  be  filled  is  in  the  office  of  mayor,  when  such  meeting 
shall  be  called  as  aforesaid  by  the  clerk  of  said  cit}T.  Each  new 
council  shall  choose,  by  a  majority  of  ballots  from  among  the  Council  to 

J  J         J  choose  a 

aldermen  duly  elected  and  qualified,  a  president  pro  tempore  of  president  -pro 

tent, 

the  common  council,  who  shall  perform  such  duties  as  may  be 
hereinafter  prescribed.     The  officers  of  said  city,  whether  a 
pointed  or  elected,  shall  hold  their  offices  for  their  respective 
terms  and  until  their  successors  are  chosen  and  qualified,  unless 
removed  for  cause. 

SEC.  6.  The  registrars  of  voters  of  the  town  of  New  Britain, 
in  making  out  the  lists  now  required  by  law  to  be  made  by  them, 
shall  group  the  names  of  the  electors  residing  in  said  city  under 
the  voting  districts  in  which  they  respectively  reside,  and  shall 
arrange  the  lists  of  such  voting  districts  in  the  alphabetical  order  ^^  voting 
of  the  streets  in  which  they  reside  and  according  to  the  number 
of  the  residence  of  each,  so  that  all  the  voters  residing  at  any 
and  every  number  on  each  and  every  street  shall  appear  on  such 
lists  consecutively  opposite  such  number ;  and  it  shall  be  the 
duty  of  said  registrars  to  prepare  from  such  registry  lists,  sepa- 
rate lists,  authenticated  by  their  signatures,  of  the  electors  in 
each  ward,  for  the  use  of  their  deputies  in  such  ward,  in  per- 
forming which  duty  said  registrars  shall  simply  transfer  to  such 
separate  ward  lists  the  names  of  electors  that  appear  on  the  town 
list  as  residing  in  such  wards  ;  such  lists  shall  be  prepared  at 
the  expense  of  said  city,  and  shall  be  delivered  to  such  deputies 
before  sunset  of  the  day  preceding  the  annual  election. 

SEC.  7.  Whenever  any  annual  meeting  for  the  choice  of  city 
officers,  or  any  meeting  where  a  vote  is  to  be  taken  by  ballot  in  lists- 
the  wards  of  said  city,  is  to  be  held,  the  registrars  whose  duty 
it  is  to  prepare  the  registry  list  or  lists,  for  electors'  meetings 
in  the  town  of  New  Britain,  shall  prepare  a  list  as  nearly  per- 
fect as  is  practicable,  of  the  names  of  the  persons  entitled  to 
vote  in  each  and  every  ward  of  said  city  at  the  said  city  meet- 
ing, and  of  the  street  in  which  each  person  resides,  and  when- 


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NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHAKTEK. 


Registrars' 

pay- 


Lists  (o  be 
delivered  to 
city  clerk. 


Challenged 

votes. 


Examina- 
tions to  he 
under  oath. 


Ward  voting 
places. 


Polls  when 
open  and 
closed. 


Presiding  of- 
ficer, how 
chosen. 

Voting  lists, 
how  kept. 


Voting, 
method  of. 


ever  the  residence  of  such  person  is  numbered,  the  number  there- 
of, which  names  shall  be  numerically  arranged  under  their  re- 
spective streets,  in  the  alphabetical  order  of  such  streets  in  the 
manner  set  forth  in  section  6  ;  for  which  services  said  registrars 
shall  be  paid  a  reasonable  compensation  from  the  city  treasury, 
not  exceeding  four  hundred  dollars  each  ;  said  list  or  lists  shall 
be  delivered  by  said  registrars  to  the  city  clerk  at  least  three 
days  prior  to  such  meeting,  and  shall  be  open  to  the  inspection 
of  any  elector  of  the  said  city.  The  presiding  officer  of  every 
ward  meeting  may  receive  the  votes  of  all  persons  whose  names 
are  on  the  ward  list  prepared  as  aforesaid,  unless  the  right  of  any 
such  person  to  vote  at  such  ward  meeting  is  challenged,  in  which 
case  said  presiding  officer  shall,  before  receiving  such  vote,  if 
requested  by  the  challenger,  make  due  inquiry  into  the  right  of 
such  person  to  vote,  and  hear  and  determine  such  challenge, 
and  if  of  the  opinion  that  such  person  is  legally  entitled  to  vote 
at  such  ward  meeting,  the  presiding  officer  shall  receive  his  vote  ; 
otherwise  he  shall  reject  his  vote.  Every  person  who  shall  be 
examined  by  an}r  presiding  officer  relative  to  the  right  of  himself 
or  any  other  person  to  vote  shall  be  under  oath,  which  oath  the 
presiding  officer  shall  administer  ;  and  if  an}-  person  when  so  ex- 
amined shall  be  guilty  of  willful  false  swearing,  he  shall  be  liable 
to  the  penalties  of  perjury. 

SEC.  8.  There  shall  be  one  place  of  voting  in  each  ward  at 
each  election  of  officers,  designated  by  the  common  council,  who 
shall  cause  notice  the  reof  to  be  publish>  d  in  a  newspaper  of 
said  city,  or  in  such  manner  as  said  common  council,  b}'  an  or- 
dinance, shall  prescribe,  not  more  than  four  weeks  nor  less  than 
one  week  preceding  such  election.  The  polls  in  each  ward  shall 
be  open  from  six  o'clock  in  the  forenoon  until  five  o'clock  in  the 
afternoon,  during  every  annual  election.  The  registrars  shall 
designate  from  the  voters  of  each  ward,  by  agreement  if  possi- 
ble, otherwise  by  lot,  a  presiding  officer  for  election  and  as- 
sistants to  relieve  him  in  the  duty  of  presiding ;  said  registiars 
shall  be  present  personally  or  by  deputy,  with  their  voting  lists 
prepared  as  hereinbefore  provided,  and  shall  check  thereon  the 
names  of  all  persons  whose  votes  are  received.  At  all  elections 
the  names  of  such  officers  as  each  voter  is  entitled  and  shall 
choose  to  vote  for,  shall  be  printed  or  written  on  one  piece  of 
paper.  A  ballot-box  of  the  usual  construction  shall  be  provided 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER.  15 

by  the  common  council  for  each  ward,  and  each  person  offering 
to  vote  shall  deposit  his  vote  on  the  lid  of  such  box.  The  pre- 
siding officer  shall  receive  and  deposit  in  the  box  the  ballots  of 
all  persons  whose  names  are  found  on  their  voting  lists  by  the 
two  registrars,  and  none  others  ;  providing,  however,  that  such 
presiding  officer  shall  not  receive  and  deposit  the  ballot  of  any 
person  whose  name  is  found  on  such  lists  if  the  right  of  such  n°ts!rs 


person  to  vote  is  challenged  and  the  challenge  is  sustained.    -A-t^u^t.  how 

the  expiration  of  the  time  allotted  for  voting,  the  presiding  officer 

shall  open  the  ballot-box,  publicly  count  the  votes  with  the  aid 

of  the  counters  appointed  by  the  registrars  or  their  deputies,  and 

declare  the  result  in  open  meeting  at  the  polling  place  in  each 

ward.     Immediately  thereafter  a  certificate  of  the  result,  signed 

by  the  presiding  officer  and  the  counters,  shall  be  deposited  in 

the  ballot-box,  the  box  sealed  and  a  like  certificate  shall  be 

transmitted,  together  with  the  voting  lists,   and   the  ballot-box 

containing  the  ballots  received,  to  the  city  clerk,  which  certifi- 

cate shall  be  evidence  of  the  vote  in  such  ward.     The  city  clerk  city  clerk  to 

,  publish  and 

shall  enter  the  returns  from  each  ward  upon  the  city  records  and  declare  result 

publish  the  same  in  the  succeeding  issue  of  at  least  one  news- 

paper of  said  city,  and  shall  therein  declare  those  persons  receiv- 

ing the  largest  number  of  votes  for  their  respective  offices  to  be 

elected  thereto.     The  presiding  officer  shall  have  all  the  power 

for  the  preservation  of  peace  and  good  order  in  such  meetings, 

bv  law  conferred  upon  the  moderator  of  town  meetings.      Any  illegal  vot- 

ing, penalty 
person  whose  name  is  not  on  such  list  as  an  elector  of  said  city  for. 

in  such  ward,  who  shall  vote  for  any  officer  of  said  city,  or  any 

person  who  shall  vote  or  attempt  to  vote  on  or  in  the  name  of 

any  other  person  whose  name  is  on  said  list,  shall  -be  punished 

by  a  fine  of  not  less  than   fifty  dollars  nor  more  than  one  hun- 

dred dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  in  the  county  jail  not  exceed- 

ing three  months,  or  by  such  fine  and  imprisonment  both.       If 

either  of  said  registrars  shall,  without  just  or  reasonable  cause,  (Yutgy  b^regis- 

refuse  or  neglect  to  discharge  any  of  the  duties  herein  prescribed,  [  ™rs'  Penalt>r 

he  shall,  on  comiction,  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  three  hundred 

dollars  ;  and  if  any  person  other  than  the  registrars   shall  make 

any  alteration  by  addition,  erasure,  or  otherwise,  in  the  list  pre-  Alterations 

of  lists,  pen- 
pared  by  the  registrars,  or  if  the  presiding  officer  in  any  of  said  "ity  for. 

wards  at  any  annual  or  special  election,  or  any  other  person 
having  charge  of  the  ballot-box  in  any  of  the  wards  aforesaid,  at 


16 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER. 


Oath  of  city 
clerk. 


Oath  of  city 
officers. 


Mayor, 
powers  and 
duties  of. 

Presiding  of- 
ficer. 


Conservator 
of  the  peace. 


May  commit 
to  prison. 


any  such  annual  or  special  election,  shall  allow  any  person  to 
deposit  his  vote  therein  whose  name  is  not  on  the  registry  list  of 
said  ward,  he  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  fifty 
dollars  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars,  or  by  imprisonment 
in  the  county  jail  not  less  than  three  months,  or  by  such  fine 
and  imprisonment  both. 

SEC.  9.  Ever}' officer  of  the  city  shall  be  sworn  before  en- 
tering upon  the  duties  of  his  office.  The  form  of  the  oath  to  be 
taken  by  the  clerk  shall  be  as  follows:  "You,  A.  B.,  do 
solemnly  swear  that  you  will  faithfully  perform  the  duties  of  the 
office  of  clerk  of  the  city  of  New  Britain  so  long  as  you  are  the 
clerk  thereof;  that  you  will  make  true  entries  and  n  cords  of  all 
the  votes  and  proceedings  of  said  city  and  of  the  common  coun- 
cil thereof;  and  of  such  other  matters  as  by  law  or  the  ordin- 
ances of  said  city  are  to  be  recorded  in  your  office,  and  that  you 
will  deliver  true  copies  of  the  records  in  }rour  office  when  they 
shall  be  required  of  you,  on  the  receipt  of  lawful  fees  therefor, 
so  help  you  God  ;"  which  oath  shall  be  administered  to  such 
clerk  by  a  justice  of  the  peace  for  the  county  of  Hartford,  and 
thereafter  said  city  clerk  shall  administer  to  all  the  other  officers 

of  said  city  the  following  oath:  "You having  been 

elected  to  the  office  of for  the  city  of  New  Britain, 

solemnly  swear  that  you  will  faithfully  and  honestly  perform  the 

duties  of  the  office  of for  the  city  of  New  Britain,  to  the 

best  of  your  judgment  and  skill,  so  help  you  God;"  and  shall 
forthwith  enter  the  fact  of  such  administration  upon  the  city 
records. 

SEC.  10.  The  mayor  of  said  city  shall  be  the  chief  executive 
magistrate  thereof,  and  it  shall  be  his  duty  to  be  vigilant  in 
causing  the  laws  thereof  to  be  enforced.  He  shall  preside  at 
all  meetings  of  the  common  council  and  all  business  meetings  of 
th<^  cit}*.  He  shall  have  power  to  administer  oaths,  to  take  de- 
positions and  the  acknowledgment  of  deeds.  He  shall  be  con- 
servator of  the  peace  of  said  city,  and  shall  have  authority,  with 
force  and  strong  hand  when  necessary,  to  suppress  all  tumults, 
riots,  and  unlawful  assemblies,  and  to  arrest,  without  warrant, 
and  to  commit  to  the  city  prison,  for  a  time  not  exceeding 
twenty-four  hours,  any  person  or  persons  who  may  be  detected 
in  quarreling,  brawling,  or  otherwise  behaving  in  a  disorderly 
manner,  to  the  disturbance  of  the  public  peace  in  said  city.  He 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER.  17 

shall  also  have  power  to  enter  into  any  house,  building,  or  place 

in  which  he  may  suspect  any  disorderly  or  vagrant  persons  to  be  houses 

assembled,  and  if  any  such  are  found  therein,  to  command  them 

immediately  to  disperse,  and  in  case  of  neglect  or  refusal  to 

obey  such  command,  to  commit  any  such  person    to  the  city 

prison   for   a   term  not   exceeding   twenty-four  hours ;  and  he 

shall  be  authorized  to  exercise  within  the  limits  of  said  city  all 

the  powers  given  to  sheriffs  and  other  officers  by  the  general  ^ 

statutes  and  he  may  at  all  times  require  the  aid  of  any  sheriff, 

deputy  sheriff,  constable,  watchman,  or  policeman,  or  any  or  all  of 

them,  together  with  such  other  aid  as  may  be  necessary ;  and 

whenever  he  shall  have  reason  to  believe  that  great  opposition 

will  be  made  to  the  execution  of  his  authority,  he  shall   have 

power  to  call  out  the  active  militia  of  said  city,  or  any  portion  May  call  out 

the  militia. 

of  the  same,  and  may  call  out  the  regular  and  supernumerary 
police  force  of  the  city  when  he  may  deem  it  necessary,  and 
may  exert  all  the  force  necessary  to  enable  him  to  execute  the 
laws  within  said  citv  It  shall  also  be  the  duty  of  the  mayor  toTorecom- 

,   "    .  -,        .  ,   mend  legisla- 

recommend  the  adoption  of  all  such  measures  connected   with  tion. 

the  police,  security,  health,  cleanliness,  and  ornament  of   the 

city  and  the  improvement  of  its  government  and  finances,  as  he 

shall  deem  expedient ;  to  communicate  to  the  common  council,  at  TO  report  to 

any  meeting  of  that  body  not  later  than  May  15th,  in  each  year,  coum-i'i'.'1" 

a  general  statement  of  the  situation,  state,  and  condition  of  the 

city  in  relation  to  its  government,  finances,  and  improvements ; 

which  statement  shall  within  five  days  thereafter  be  entered  in  the 

records  of  the  common  council  and  published  in  such  manner  as 

said  common  council  shall  order.     It  shall  be  the  further  duty  of  ^^l™1 

the  mayor  to  discharge  all  duties  imposed  upon    him  by    the 

charter  and  ordinances  of  the  citj7,  the  laws  of  this  state  and  of 

the  United  States.     The  mayor  shall  receive  as  compensation  fi°mpensa~ 

for  the  performance  of  the  duties  of  his  office  the  sum  of  six 

hundred  dollars  per  annum. 

SEC.   11.     If  any  person  shall   hinder,    obstruct,    resist,  or  Obstructing 
abuse  the  mayor  in  the  execution  of  the  duties  of  his  office,  and, the  may°r- 
when  commanded  to  assist  therein,  shall  refuse  or  unreasonably 
neglect  so  to  do,  such  offender  shall  pay  a  fine  not  exceeding 
one  hundred  dollars,  or  be  imprisoned  in  the  county  jail  not  ex- 
ceeding six  months,  or  suffer  such  fine  and  imprisonment  both, 
at  the  discretion  of  the  court  having  cognizance  of  the  offense. 

3 


18 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER. 


be  acting 
mayor. 


City  Clerk 
duties  of. 


umiM  caii'or*      SEC-  12'     The  Pa>?  of  memDers  of  the  active  militia  during 
the  mayor,     service  under  the  call  of  the  mayor  as  aforesaid,  and  the  penalty 
for  refusing  to  perform  such  service,   shall  be  the  same  as  is 
provided  in  such  cases  by  the  general  statutes. 

denf1pror<tem  SEC.  ^'  Whenever  the  mayor  shall  be  absent  from  the  city 
dermIa1nrshaii or  prevented  by  sickness  or  other  cause  from  attending  to  the 
duties  of  his  office,  the  president  pro  tempore  of  the  common 
council,  and  in  his  absence,  the  senior  alderman,  that  is  the 
alderman  who  has  occupied  such  office  for  the  longest  consecu- 
tive term,  shall  act  as  mayor,  and  shall  possess,  exercise,  and 
enjoy  all  the  rights,  powers,  and  duties  of  the  mayor  during  the 
continuance  of  such  absence,  or  inability. 

>  SEC.  14.  The  clerk  of  said  city  shall  also  be  clerk  of  said 
common  council,  and  shall  make  and  keep  true  records  of  all  the 
votes  and  proceedings  of  said  city  and  of  said  common  council. 
^e  8Da^  cause  tQe  ordinances  of  said  city  to  be  published  ac- 
be  published,  cording  to  law,  and  when  they  shall  have  been  so  published 
shall  enter  upon  the  record  of  said  common  council  his  certifi- 
cate of  the  fact  of  such  publication,  including  the  date  thereof. 
He  shall  also  make  upon  the  records  of  said  common  council 

Other  duties. 

record  of  his  own  acts  in  serving  notices  of  orders  passed  by 
said  common  council.  Said  clerk  shall  also  do  and  perform  all 
such  duties  as  may  be  required  of  him  by  this  act  or  by  any  or- 
der, vote,  or  ordinance  of  said  common  council.  All  records  of 
said  clerk  shall  have  the  same  validity  as  the  records  of  town 
clerks,  and  shall  be,  either  by  themselves  or  by  a  copy  certified 
by  said  clerk,  evidence  in  all  courts  of  the  truth  of  the  matters 
therein  recorded. 

SEC.  15.  The  common  council  may  at  any  time  appoint  an 
assistant  clerk,  who,  after  having  taken  the  oath  by  law  pro- 
vided for  the  clerk  of  said  city,  shall,  in  the  absence,  death,  or 
disability  of  said  clerk,  have  power  to  perform  all  the  duties  of 
his  office  ;  and  all  records  and  acts  of  said  assistant  shall  have 
the  same  validity  as  the  records  and  acts  of  said  city  clerk. 

SEC.  16.  The  treasurer  of  said  city  shall  have  the  same  rela- 
tive powers  and  responsibilities  in  said  city  as  town  treasurers 
have  in  their  respective  towns ;  he  shall  annually,  in  the  month 
of  April,  report  to  the  common  council,  at  any  meeting  of  that 
body  during  said  month,  a  detailed  statement  of  the  receipts  of 
money  into  the  treasury  and  the  expenditures  therefrom  during 


Validity  of 
records. 


Assistant 
City  Clerk. 


City  treas- 
urer, duties 
of. 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER.  19 

the  year  ending  with  the  last  day  of  March  previous  thereto,  to- 
gether with  an  accurate  statement  of  the  existing  state  of  the 
treasury  ;  which  report  having  been  audited  by  a  committee  ap-  A<fr"Uko^au 
pointed  by  the  common  council,  shall  be  recorded  within  five  dited 
days,  and  be  published  in  such  manner  as  the  common  council 
shall  direct,  together  with  the  auditing  committee's  certificate, 

Shall  pay 

under  oath,  concerning  the  same.     He  shall  pay  all  orders  of  orders, 
the  city  auditor,  and  shall  also  comply  with  all  ordinances  and 
orders  that  may  be  made  concerning  his  office  by  the  common 
council. 

SEC.  17.     The  auditor  of  said  city  shall  draw  his  orders  on  the  ^ty^auditor, 
treasurer  thereof  for  the  payment  only  of  such  bills  as  shall  have 
been  ordered  to  be  paid  by  the  common  council  and  the  police 
and  fire  commissioners. 

SEC.  18.     The  sheriff  of  said    city  shall,   within  the  limits  city  sheriff, 

power  and 

thereof,  have  the  same  power  and  authority  as  sheriffs  of  coun-  authority  of. 

ties,  and  shall  be  liable  to  the   same   suits  and   penalties   for 

neglect  of  duty,  and  the  said  city  shall  be  liable  for  the  default 

of  such  sheriff  in  his  office.     Said  sheriff  shall  attend  upon  the 

the  city  court  when  sitting  for  the  transaction  of  civil  business 

only. 

SEC.   19.     The  collector  of  said  city  shall   collect  every   tax  city  coiiec- 

ill.,,  .,     .,  ,     ,  ,  .    „        .,        tor,duties  of. 

duly  laid  by  said  city,  and,  having  received  a  warrant  for  that 
purpose  signed  by  the  mayor  of  said  city,  shall  have  the  same 
power  as  collectors  of  town  taxes  now  have,  and  shall  be  ac- 
countable to  said  city ;  and,  in  case  said  collector  shall  not  per- 
form his  trust,  then  on  complaint  of  the  common  council  the 
mayor  shall  issue  his  warrant  under  his  hand  directed  to  the 
sheriff  of  said  city  to  collect  out  of  the  estate  of  the  negligent 
collector  the  sum  due  from  him  as  previously  ascertained  by 
said  common  council.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  collector,  at 
the  expiration  of  his  term  of  office,  whether  by  resignation,  re- 
moval, or  otherwise,  to  turn  over  and  deliver  to  his  successor  in 
office  all  books  of  account,  documents,  and  papers  of  every 
description  in  any  wa}-  relating  to  the  office  or  the  business 
thereof. 

SEC.  20.     The  treasurer,  collector,  auditor,  clerk  of  the  city,  ^ers?'  Clty 
clerk  of  the  city  court,  and  sheriff  shall  severally  give   bonds 
with  surety  to  the  mayor  of  the  city  and  his  successors  in  office, 
in  such  amount,  manner  and  form  as  the  ordinances  of  said  city 


20 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER. 


Office  to  be 
declared  va- 
cant on  re- 
fusal to  give 
bonds. 


Taxes,  how 
laid. 


Common 
council. 


Valid  meet- 
ings. 


Majority 
vote  neces- 
sary. 

Powers  of 

Common 

Council. 


Nuisances. 


Storing  of 
lumber, 
steam  boil- 
ers, explosive 
substances. 


Preservation 
from  fires. 

Erection  of 
buildings, 
mode  and 
material  of. 


shall  prescribe  for  the  faithful  performance  of  the  duties  of  their 
respective  offices,  and  incase  of  the  refusal  or  neglect  of  either  of 
said  officers  to  give  such  bond,  his  office  shall  be  deemed  vacant 
by  such  refusal  or  neglect,  and  on  a  declaration  to  that  effect 
being  made  to  the  common  council  by  the  mayor,  said  common 
council  may  proceed  to  fill  said  vacancy  in  the  manner  hereinbe- 
fore provided. 

SEC.  21.  Said  city,  in  legal  meeting  assembled,  shall  have 
power  to  lay  taxes  on  the  polls  and  ratable  estate  within  the 
limits  of  the  city  for  such  purposes  as  the  city  shall  think  proper, 
agreeable  to  the  privileges  in  this  act. 

SEC.  22.  The  mayor,  aldermen,  and  councilmen  of  the  said 
city  shall  constitute  and  be  a  body  known  as  the  common  coun- 
cil of  the  city  of  New  Britain.  All  meetings  of  said  common 
council  duly  warned  and  held,  at  which  a  majority  of  the  mem- 
bers are  present,  shall  be  valid  meetings,  and  ma,y  proceed  to 
transact  any  business  properly  before  them,  and  all  meetings  at 
which  less  than  a  majority  of  said  council  is  present  shall  have 
power  to  adjourn  to  such  time  as  they  see  fit.  All  acts  of  said 
common  council,  at  any  meeting,  shall  be  done  by  a  majority 
vote  of  all  members  present. 

SEC.  23.  The  common  council  shall  have  power,  under  the 
restrictions  otherwise  provided  in  this  act,  to  make  such  orders 
or  ordinances  as  it  shall  see  fit  in  relation  to  the  following  sub- 
jects within  the  limits  of  said  city,  to  wit : 

Nuisances  of  all  kinds  in  the  said  city,  and  their  summary 
abatement  by  any  person  by  it  appointed  therefor  ;  sinks,  cess- 
pools, gutters,  drains,  sewers,  and  sewer  connections,  privies, 
barns,  stables,  hog-pens,  and  the  keeping  of  swine,  slaughter- 
houses, deposits  of  filth  and  rubbish  ;  the  going  at  large  in  the 
streets  of  animals  or  fowls  of  every  description  ;  the  storing  or 
piling  of  lumber ;  the  erection  and  use  of  steam  boilers ;  the 
keeping,  sale,  and  use  of  gunpowder,  fire-works,  nitro  glycerine, 
or  other  similar  explosive  substances,  and  the  conveyance  there- 
of through  any  portion  of  the  city. 

The  preservation  of  said  city  from  fires  and  from  the  danger 
of  fires  and  for  that  purpose  to  regulate  the  mode  of  building 
and  the  materials  used  for  building  or  altering  buildings,  to 
grant  permits  for  the  erection,  addition  to,  repair,  and  enlarge- 
mant  of  buildings  and  to  prevent  the  erection,  addi- 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER.  21 

tion   to,  repair,    or    enlargement   thereof,    without    the    per- 
mission     of     said     council  ;     to     regulate     the     using     and  ^t&gnd 
heating    of    buildings,     to      establish      and      designate     dis-  buildings. 
tricts    of   said   city   within  which  it   shall    not    be  lawful  to 
erect,  enlarge,  repair,  or  elevate  or  into  which  or  within  which 
it  shall  not  be  lawful  to  remove  any  wooden  building,  except  by  ^V  wooden 
permission  of  said  common  council  or  a  committee  thereof  ;  the  bulldlngs* 
erection,    construction,    or  use  within  said   city,    of  buildings 
which  by  reason  of  their  structure  or  use,  are  or  may  become 
unsafe,  and  to  provide  for  and  enforce   the  disuse,  removal,  or 
demolition  of  such  buildings  or  such  parts  thereof  as  are  or  may 

become  unsafe  ;  the  securing  of  safe  and  convenient  egress  in  E*™*a  from 

public  build- 
case  of  fire  or  other  accident  from  buildings  designed  in  whole  ings. 

or  in  part  for  public  use,  already  erected  or  which  may  here- 
after be  erected  in  said  city,  and  the  prohibition  of  the  use  of 
such  buildings  which  are  or  may  become  unsafe  by  insufficient 
facilities  of  egress  or  for  other  cause. 

The  markets  and  commerce  of  the  city  ;  the  inspection  of 
produce  brought  into  the  city  for  sale  or  transportation  ;  the  sale 
or  offering  for  sale  of  unwholesome  meat,  vegetables,  produce,  or 
food  of  any  kind. 

The  streets,  highways,  alleys,  walks,  and  public  grounds,  and 
the  preservation  of  all  trees  and  shrubbery  therein  ;  keeping  the 
same  free  from  snow,  ice,  rubbish,  or  obstruction  of  any  kind  ; 
the  laying  out,  altering,  constructing,  grading,  and  repair  of 
such  streets,  alleys,  highways,  walks,  and  public  grounds,  the 
naming  of  all  public  streets  and  the  numbering  of  all  lots  oYiStsf  ring 

thereon. 

...  .  ,.  Public  water 

I  he  public  water-works  and  the  management  of  the  same.        works. 

Trespasses  in  gardens,  cemeteries,  and  other  enclosures  ;  the  Trespasses. 
cleaning  of  chimneys  ;  burying  grounds  and  burials  ;  the  pro-  Burying 

J  J  grounds.  Pro- 

tection of  all  buildings  from  defacement  or  injury  ;  the  marching  tection  of 

J     *  '  °  buildings. 

and  parading  of  military  and  fire  companies  and  processions  of 


every  kind  in  the  public  streets  ;  public  assemblages,  receptions, 
celebrations,  shows,  and  music.  assemblages. 

The  manner  of  warning  meetings  of  said  city  and  of  the  com-  Warning  of 
mon  council,  and  the  times  and  places  of  such  meetings  ;  the  es- 
tablishment and  maintenance  of  a  police  force  ;  the  preservation  police  force. 
of  order,  the  observance  and  enforcement  of  the  laws  of  the 
State  and  the  ordinances  of  the  city  by  means  of  such    police 


22  NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER. 

force  ;  the  mode  of  taxation  as  to  taxes  levied  by  said  city  ;  the 


vevaiicesn"  licensmg  an(^  regulating  of  public  hacks  and  carnages,  and  the 
charges  of  hackmen,  public  drivers,  cartmen,  and  truckmen. 

The  finances  and  property,  real  and  personal,  of  the  city  ;  and 
the  borrowing  of  money  by  the  city  for  any  purpose  for  which 
the  city  is  authorized  to  lay  taxes  by  this  act  ;  the  authentica- 
tion, execution,  and  delivery  of  deeds,  grants,  and  releases  of 

city  real  es-  the  real  estate  of  the  city,  the  full  conveyance  or  release  where- 
of has  been  authorized  at  a  legal  meeting  of  the  voters  of  said 
city. 

street  light-  The  erection  of  lamp-posts,  poles,  lamps,  and  lighting  ap- 
paratus of  every  description,  and  the  public  lighting  of  the 


streets ;  the  excavation  or  opening  of  streets,  highways,   and 
grounds  and  Puklic  grounds  for  public  or  private  purposes,  and  the  location 
use  of  same,    of  any  work  thereon,  whether  temporary  or  permanent,  upon  or 
under  the  surface  thereof ;  the  depositing  therein   of  building 
materials  of  any  description,  and  the  removal  of  buildings  upon 
^ndfor°pub-or  through  the  same  ;  the  form  of  proceedings  in  taking  land  for 

public  use  not  otherwise  prescribed  in  this  act. 

order5  &nd          ^ne  preservation  of  public  peace  and  order,  the   prevention 
and  quelling  of  tumultuous  noises,  riots,  and  disorderly  assem- 
blages ;  the  conferring  upon  the  mayor  and  police  officers  of  the 
cit3T  or  town  constables  of  all  the  powers  necessary  for  such  pur- 
poses ;  the  prohibition,  restraining  licensing,  and  regulation  of 
Reguiationof  public  sports,  exhibitions,   and  performances ;   the   punishment 
sports.  of  the  resistance,  hindrance,  or  obstruction  of  public  officers  in 

canciel V&  ^ne  discharge  of  their  duties  ;  the  filling  of  vacancies  in  any  office 
appertaining  to  the  city,  not  otherwise  provided  for  in  this  act. 
TO  elect  offl-  The  election  or  appointment  of  prosecuting  attorney,  corpor- 
ation counsel,  sewer  commissioners,  city  surveyors,  street 
commissioners,  water  commissioners,  police  commissioners, 
public  weighers,  fire  commissioners,  sealers  of  weights 
and  measures,  health  officers,  inspectors  of  articles 
offered  for  sale,  and  such  other  functionaries  as  are  proper  for  the 
administration  of  the  affairs  of  the  city. 

Keeping  ac-       The  mode  of  keeping  the  accounts  of  said  city  ;  the  provision 
Printing  for  for  and  regulation  of  all  the  printing  done  for  said  city. 

conduct  of         The  conducting  of  all  elections  in  matters  not  expressly  regu- 
elections. 

lated  by  this  act  or  b}"  the  laws  of  the  state,  and  the  prevention 

and  punishment  of  illegal  voting  thereat. 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER. 

The  prescribing  of  the  salaries  and  fees  of  all  officers  of  said  feae1sarles  and 
city,  except  as  herein  otherwise  provided  ;  provided,  that  no  al- 
derman or  councilman  shall  receive  any  fee,  salary,  compensa- 
tion, or  reward  for  services  as  such  alderman  or  councilman,  ex- 
cept the  president  pro  tempore  of  the  common  council,  until  the 
said  city  shall  have  a  population  of  thirty  thousand  inhabitants. 

The  particular  duties  of  all  officers  not  expressly  defined  by 
this  act. 

The  regulation  of  the  speed  of  animals,  vehicles,  and  electric  mP{Us 
cars,  and  bicycles  within  the  limits  of  said  city,  and   to  provide  and§' bicycles! 
for  the  cessation  of  city  traffic,  stoppage  of  electric  cars,  in  case 
of  emergency  ;  to  provide  for  the  placing  and  maintenance  of  ^^^1°  °ar 
fenders  on  electric  cars. 

The  providing  for  the  removal  from  office  of  any  city  officer  ?emov«ce 
for  imcompetency  or  incapacity,  neglect  of  duty,   disobedience 
of  any  lawful  order  of  competent  authority,  misfeasance  or  mal- 
feasance in  office. 

Licensing  and  regulating  peddling  and  auctions  ;  the  erection  auctions5. a' 
of  awning  posts,  awnings,  and  the  projection  of  signs,  banners, 
and  flags  over,  on,  or  in  any  highway  or  street ;  the  seal  of  said 
city  ;  and  said  common  council  may  prescribe  penalties  and  for- 
feitures of  goods  and  chattels  for  the  violation  of  any  such  or- 
ders and  ordinances,  which  penalties  and  forfeitures  may  be  re- 
covered  by  the  corporation  counsel  in  an  action  of  debt  or  other  covered, 
proper  action  brought  in  the  name  of  the  city  of  New  Britain 
before  the  city  court  of  said  city,  for  the  use  of  the  city  treas- 
ury. 

The  violation  of  any  ordinance  or  order  relative  to  bathing  in  Misde- 
meanors, 

places  exposed  to  public  view,  to  nuisances  injurious  to  health  now  pro- 
secuted. 

or  safety,  illegal  voting,  obstruction  to  highways  (if  malicious), 
illegal  charges  of  hackmen,  weights  and  measures,  indecency, 
or  any  order  or  ordinance  designed  to  prevent  vice,  immoralit}', 
or  disorder,  or  the  resistance  of  officers,  or  the  obstrnction  or 
hindrance  of  any  public  officer  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties, 
shall  be  a  misdemeanor,  and  may  be  prosecuted  as  such  before 
the  police  court  of  said  city,  like  other  offenses,  and  said  court 
may  inflict  thereon  the  penalty  named  in  such  order  or  ordin- 
ance, and  grant  a  warrant  for  the  execution  of  the  same  ;  pro- 
vided, that  no  penalty  or  forfeiture  of  goods  other  than  such  as 
shall  indirectly  accrue  from  the  abatement  of  nuisances  shall 
exceed  the  sum  of  fifty  dollars  for  a  single  offense. 


24 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER. 


common  council  shall  have  power   to  make,   alter,    and 
cleaning  of.    repeal  ordinances  requiring  the  owner  or  occupant  of  any  build- 
ing, land,  or  tenement,  to  clean  and  keep  reasonably  safe  from 
snow  and  ice  the  sidewalk  in  front  of  the  premises,  and  to  make 
the  violation  of  such  ordinances  a  misdemeanor  to  be  prosecuted 
before  the  police  court,  and  to  prescribe  penalties  for  the  same. 
Regulation         Said  common  council  shall  have  the  power  to  authorize,  regu- 
financesand  late,  and  control  the  issuing  of  bonds  of  said  city   to  take  up 

the  issuing  of  J 

bonds.  any  and  all  outstanding  bonds,  to  pay  any  and  all  indebtedness 

and  all  claims  against  the  city  of  every  nature  ;  to  provide 
means  for  the  payment  of  the  costs  and  expenses  of  any  and  all 
public  works  and  improvements  ;  to  prescribe  the  form  of  the 
same,  their  terms,  and  the  time  of  payment,  and  to  designate 
the  authority  by  whom  they  shall  be  signed,  and  in  general  to 
do  and  perform  all  things  necessary  or  convenient  for  the  proper 
regulation  of  the  cUy's  finances  and  the  proper  adjustment  of 
its  debts,  and  the  providing  of  funds  for  all  its  lawful  expendi- 
tures ;  provided,  however,  that  before  any  such  bonds  shall  be 
issued,  the  proposition  to  issue  them  shall  be  submitted  to  a 
city  meeting  especially  called  and  warned  for  that  purpose  bv 

,  ,     „  .  .  .  ' 

the  mayor,  and  a  vote  shall  be  taken  thereon  approving  or  dis- 
approving such  issue;  and  provided  further,  that  no  such  bond 
shall  be  issued  unless  approved  by  vote  of  a  city  meeting 
specially  called  and  warned  for  the  purpose  aforesaid. 

o  .,    •  -,  •  •>     ,     n      i         , 

oEC.  24.  Said  common  council  shall  also  have  the  power 
to  make  such  orders  or  ordinances  as  it  shall  see  fit  for  the  bet- 
ter protection  and  preservation  of  the  waters  of  Shuttle  Meadow 
lake,  so  called,  in  the  town  of  Southington,  and  of  all  the  water- 
works of  said  city  situate  in  said  town,  and  to  prescribe  penal- 
ties and  forfeitures  of  goods  and  chattels  not  exceeding  the 
sum  of  fifty  dollars  for  a  single  offense,  for  the  violation  of  an}- 
such  orders  or  ordinances  ;  such  penalties  and  forfeitures  to  be  re- 
covered in  the  same  manner  as  the  penalties  and  forfeitures 
mentioned  in  the  preceding  section  ;  provided,  however,  that  the 
violation  of  any  such  order  or  ordinance  to  preserve  the  purity 
of  the  waters  of  said  lake,  or  to  prevent  willful  injury  to  said 
water-works  or  any  part  thereof,  shall  be  a  misdemeanor  and 
may  be  prosecuted  as  such  before  the  police  court  of  said  city 
like  other  offenses,  and  said  court  may  inflict  thereon  the  pen- 
alty named  in  such  order  or  ordinance,  and  grant  a  warrant  for 
the  execution  of  the  same. 


issue  of 
proval  of 

necessary. 


Protection  of 

waterworks. 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER.  25 


The  water  commissioners  or  their  representative  may  enter 
upon  or  into  the  land  or  buildings  of  any  resident  for  the  pur- 
pose  of  shutting  off  or  of  repairing   the  water  supply  of   said  property. 
property,  and  may  call  upon  the  police  force  to  assist  or  protect 
them  in  the  discharge  of  their  duty. 

SEC.  25.     The  common  council  of  said  city  shall  constitute  common 

47  council  shall 

'a  board  of  health  in  said  citv,  and  shall  have  and  may  exercise  constitute  a 

board  of 
all  power  and  authority  which  it  shall  judge  necessary  and  proper  health. 

for  the  prevention  of  disease  of  an}7  kind,  and  for  the  promotion 

of  the  health  of  the  inhabitants  of  said  city  ;  and  may  make  and 

cause  to  be  executed  all  orders  for  such  purpose  as  it  may  deem 

proper,  and  may  appoint  health  committees  to  carry  the  same  C°m" 

into  effect.     And  said  common  council,  or  the  mayor  of  the  city, 

or  any  member  of  such  health  committee,   may  cause  all  filthy 

and  putrid  substances  or  matter  of  any  kind  which  they  shall 

think  injurious  to  the  health  and  cleanliness  of  the  city  to  be  re- 

moved at  the  expense  of  the  proprietor  or  proprietors,  or  oc- 

cupant  or  occupants  of  the  land   or  building  upon  or  in  which 

said  substance  or  matter  may  be,  or  upon  or  from  which  it  ma}* 

arise  or  come,  and  for  that  purpose  may  enter  upon  or  into  all 

lands  or  buildings  in  said  city  ;  and  the  mayor  may  issue  a  war- 

rant of  distress  to  the  collector  of  the  city  to  collect  such  ex- 

pense of  such  person  or  persons. 

SEC.  26.  Every  vote,  resolution,  order,  or  ordinance  passed 
by  said  common  council  shall  be  submitted  to  the  mayor  for  hisyet0' 
approval,  and  if  such  vote,  resolution,  order,  or  ordinance 
shall  be  disapproved  by  him,  the  same  shall  be  returned  to  the 
common  council  at  its  next  meeting  [whether  an  adjourned,  a 
regular,  or  a  special  meeting],  with  his  objections  thereto  in 
writing,  and  if  two-thirds  of  all  the  members  of  said  Common 
council,  present  and  absent,  shall  again  pass  such  vote,  resolu- 
tion, order,  or  ordinance,  the  same  shall  be  valid,  as  if  the  same 
had  been  approved  by  the  mayor. 

SEC.  27.     Within  sixty  days  after  an  ordinance    has  been  Ordinances, 

approval  or 

passed,  the  mayor  may  call,  and  if  requested  in  writing  bv  five  disapproval 

.  by  special 

members  of  the  common  council  and  thirty  other  voters  of  the  city  meeting. 
city,  he  shall  call  a  special  meeting  of  the  voters  of  the  city  to 
approve  or  disapprove  said  ordinance,  to  be  held  at  such  time 
and  place,  within  ten  days  thereafter,  as  the  mayor  in  said  call 
shall  designate.     Such  call  shall  be  by  notice  published   in  a 

4 


26 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER. 


newspaper  of  the  city,  and  shall  recite  the  ordinance  to  be  acted 
upon  by  such  meeting.  If  a  majority  of  the  voters  of  the  city 
present  and  voting  at  such  meeting  shall  vote  to  disapprove  said 
ordinance,  it  shall  from  that  time  be  repealed  and  void,  other- 
wise it  shall  continue  in  force. 

SEC.  28.     No  member  of  the  common  council  shall,  during 


Members  of 

council  to 

hold  110  other  the  period  for  which  he  was  elected,  be  appointed  to  or  hold  anv 
city  office  nor          r 
to  be  inter- 

ested  in  any 

contract. 


Appropria- 

tlons,  how 

made. 


office  in  any  of  the  boards  of  fire,  police,  water,  or  sewer  coin- 
missioners,  or  any  other  office,  the  emoluments  of  which  are  to 
be  paid  from  the  city  treasur}7,  excepting  the  office  of  mayor  and 
the  president  pro  tempore  of  the  common  council,  as  hereinbe- 
fore provided  ;  nor  shall  he  become,  while  a  member  of  the  com- 
mon council,  directly  or  indirectly  interested  in  any  contract, 
the  expense  or  the  consideration  of  which  is  to  be  paid  under 
any  vote  or  resolution  of  the  common  council  ;  nor  shall  he  be 
appointed  or  permitted  to  act  in  carrying  into  effect  any  vote, 
resolution,  or  matter  whatever  of  a  local  description,  as  com- 
mittee or  otherwise,  in  which  he  has  a  direct  or  special  pecuniary 
interest,  or  where  his  property  will  be  directly  or  especially 
affected  thereby. 

.  SEC.  29.  ^ne  c°mmon  council  of  said  city  shall  annually,  in 
the  month  of  March,  and  on  or  before  the  twenty-fifth  day  of 
that  month,  make  a  detailed  estimate  of  the  expenses  of  said 
city,  and  of  each  department  thereof,  during  the  year  ending  on 
the  thirty-first  day  of  March  next  following,  and  cause  the  same 
to  be  published  in  each  of  the  daily  newspapers  of  said  cit}-. 
The  said  estimates,  with  such  explanations  and  suggestions  as 
the  said  common  council  shall  deem  proper  to  submit,  shall  be 
submitted  to  a  regularly  warned  meeting  of  the  city  to  be 
held  within  ten  days  after  the  time  appointed  for  the  annual  city 
election,  and  shall  there,  or  at  an  adjourned  meeting,  be  con- 
sidered and  acted  upon.  If  the  said  meeting  approve  of  the 
said  estimates,  it  shall  authorize  the  requisite  appropriations  to 
be  made  by  the  said  common  council  to  pay  the  amount  thereof; 
but  if  it  disapprove  of  the  said  estimates,  or  any  of  them,  it 
shall  make  such  alterations  or  amendments  therein  as  it  shall 
judge  proper,  and  shall  authorize  the  appropriations  required  to 
pay  the  sums  called  for  by  said  estimates  so  altered  or  amended 
by  it.  And  it  shall  not  be  lawful  for  the  said  common  council 
to  make  appropriations  from  the  city  treasury,  or  in  an}-  manner 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER.  27 

bind  said  ciiy  for  a  sum  in  excess  of  the  estimates  so  approved 

or  altered  or  amended  by  said  meeting,  without  the  sanction  of 

the  voters  of  said  city.     A  tax   shall  be  laid   at  said   meeting  Tax- 

to  meet  the  appropriations  voted,  and  any  additional  sum  voted 

at  any  special  meeting  of  said  city  shall  also  be  provided  for  by 

a  tax  laid  at  said  special  meeting.     The  mayor  or  other  execu-  fl^TiVam  °.f~ 

tive  officer  shall  be  held  personally  liable  for  the  amount  of  any 

order  drawn  or  obligation  given  in  violation  of  this  section. 

SEC.  30.     The  common  council  of  said  city  shall   have  power  Building 

, .    I    .  1*1  lines. 

to  designate  a  line  or  lines,  on  the  land  adjoining  any  highway 
or  street  in  said  cit}T,  between  which  line  and  said  highway  or 
street  n^  building  or  part  thereof  shall  be  erected  or  stationed  ; 
provided,  such  line  shall  not  be  more  than  fifteen  feet  distant 
from  said  highway  or  street.  And  any  person  who  shall  erect 
or  station  any  building  or  part  of  a  building  between  any  line  so 
designated  and  the  highway  or  street  shall  forfeit  and  pay  for 
the  use  of  said  city  a  fine  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars, 
and  in  addition,  all  such  buildings  shall  be  assessed  four-fold 
in  the  lists  of  ratable  estate  in  said  city.  Said  fine  may  be  re- 
covered in  an  action  of  debt  or  other  proper  action  brought  in 
the  name  of  the  said  city  before  the  city  court  thereof. 

SEC.  31.     The  common  council  shall  have  power  to  lay  out,  f rains' and 
construct,  and  repair  sewers  and  drains  wherever  it  may  deem 
the  same  necessary  thiough  or  along  any  street,  highway,  public 
or   private   grounds,  and  to  assess   such  portions  as  they   may  Assessments, 
deem  reasonable  of  the  cost  of  any  such  sewer  or  drain  upon  the 
property   for  the    carrying   off  the   sewage,    surface,    or   other 
drainage  of  which  such  sewer  or  drain  may  be   constructed,   or 
which  may  be  in  any  way  improved  or  benefited  thereb}-   and 
the  sums  so   assessed  shall  be  a  lien  upon  the  said  property,  sewer  assess- 

J  '  ment  Hen. 

and  may  be  foreclosed  or  collected  as  provided  in  section  fifty- 
three  of  this  act.  No  person  shall  construct  any  drain  or  sewer  Sewers  and 

,  .     ,  drains  not  to 

of  any  kind  upon  and  from  any  premises  in  said  city,  to  or  upon  be  laid  or 

used  without 

any  highway   or  street  in  said  city,  or  use  or  permit  an}'  such  permission. 

eewer  or  drain  to  be  used  without  the  permission  of  the  common 

council ;  and  any  person  so  constructing  such  drain  or  sewer,  or 

using  or  permitting  such   to  be  used  without   such   permission, 

shall  forfeit  and  pay  to  use  of  said  city  a  fine  of  ten  dollars  for 

such   construction,  and  a  like  amount   for  each   day  that  such 

drain  or  sewer  is  so  used  or  permitted  to  be  used. 


28 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTKR. 


Damages  and 

benefits  on 

streams 

taken. 


Appropria- 
tion of 
streams,  as- 
sessments 
how  made 
when  an 
agreement 
cannot  he 
reached. 


common  council  of  said  city  is  hereby  author- 
ized,  whenever  in  its  opinion  the  public  health  or  sewerage  shall 
require  such  action,  to  take,  occupy,  and  appropriate,  in  such 
manner  as  it  shall,  from  time  to  time,  deem  expedient,  any 
stream,  or  part  of  a  stream,  natural  or  artificial,  running  in  or 
through  said  city,  and  to  straighten,  deepen,  or  lower  the  same 
or  lower  or  remove  any  or  all  walls,  dams,  or  other  obstructions, 
to  the  free  and  healthy  flow  of  such  stream  or  part  of  a  stream,  or 
enlarge  or  cause  to  be  enlarged  or  lowered,  any  or  all  culverts, 
which  at  any  season  of  the  year  cause  the  accumulation  of 
stagnant  water,  or  interrupt  in  any  manner  the  free  and  healthy 
flow  of  any  part  of  such  stream. 

SEC.  33.  Whenever  said  common  council  shall  take  action 
under  the  foregoing  power,  it  shall  appoint  a  committee  to  pre- 
pare a  descriptive  survey  of  the  improvement  contemplated, 
with  a  earful  estimate  of  the  cost  of  completing  the  same,  and 
to  agree  with  the  parties  interested  as  to  damages  and  special 
benefits  on  account  of  such  improvement ;  and  the  report  of  such 
survey  and  estimate  having  been  accepted  and  recorded,  and 
such  agreement  having  been  ratified,  and  the  sums  agreed  upon 
as  damages  having  been  paid  to  the  parties  entitled  thereto,  or 
deposited  to  their  credit  in  the  city  treasury,  said  city  may  go 
on  to  the  completion  of  said  improvement,  and  do  all  acts 
necessary  or  convenient  for  that  purpose  without  further  liabil- 
ity. 

SEC.  34.  But  if  said  common  council  shall  be  unable  to 
agree  with  the  parties  interested  as  to  the  damages  or  benefits 
to  be  assessed  on  account  of  such  improvement,  any  judge  of 
the  superior  court  or  of  the  supreme  court  of  errors  ma}',  on  ap- 
plication of  said  city,  after  causing  such  notice  of  the  pendency 
of  such  application  as  he  shall  deem  just  and  reasonable,  appoint 
three  judicious  and  disinterested  freeholders  of  the  county  of 
Hartford  to  estimate  the  damages  and  benefits  resulting  from 
said  improvement ;  and  said  committee,  having  been  duly  sworn, 
and  having  given  notice  of  the  time  and  place  of  its  meeting  for 
the  purpose  aforesaid,  by  publishing  the  same  not  less  than 
twice  in  a  newspaper  published  in  said  city,  shall  meet  at  the 
time  and  place  designated,  and  having  heard  all  parties  in  in- 
terest who  shall  appear  before  it,  shall  determine  what  parties 
will  be  damaged  by  said  improvement  in  excess  of  special  bene- 


NEW  UKITAIN  CITY  CHARTER.  29 

fits,  and  the  amount  thereof;  also  what  parties  owning  or  in- 
terested in  lands  ;  easements,  or  franchises,  within  a  reasonable 
distance  of  said  improvement,  will  receive  special  benefit  over 
all  damage,  and  the  amount  thereof,  and  also  what  parties,  if 
any,  will  receive  an  equal  amount  of  damage  and  benefit.  And 
thereupon  said  committee  shall  report  in  writing  to  the  said  ^report  to 
judge,  who  may  confirm,  correct,  or  set  aside  said  report, Judge- 
as  he  may  deem  just,  in  which  latter  case  said  committee,  or  a 
new  one  to  be  then  appointed  by  said  judge,  shall  pioceed  as 
before,  and  said  report  being  finally  accepted  by  said  judge, 
shall  be  recorded  by  the  clerk  of  the  superior  court  for  Hartford 
county,  and  the  award  of  damages  and  benefits  therein  con- 
tained shall  be  final  between  the  parties  ;  all  papers  connected 
with  said  case,  by  whomseover  held,  shall  then  be  delivered  to 
the  clerk  of  the  city  of  New  Britain,  who  shall  keep  the  same  on 
file  for  the  public  inspection,  and  said  damages  being  paid  or  de- 
posited as  before  provided,  said  city  may  go  on  to  complete 
said  public  improvement  and  do  all  acts  necessary  or  convenient 
for  that  purpose  without  further  liability  in  the  premises. 

SEC.  35.     All  amounts  due  to  said  city  as  special  benefits  special  bene- 
under  the  preceding  sections,   whether  reached  by  agreement  or  lected. 
assessment,  may  be  collected  by  warrant  under  the  hand  of  the 
the   mayor  of  said   city,  directed  to  the  collector  thereof,  who 
shall  enforce   the  same  in  the  same  manner  as  tax  warrants  are 
served  and  enforced.     Every  such  amount  shall  also  be  and  re-  Benefits,  a 

lien  upon  the 

mam  a   lien  upon  the  land  or  other  property  with  reference  to  property, 
which  it  was  made,  and  said  lien  shall  have  the  same  validity 
and  effect,  and  be  enforced  in  the  same  way  as  provided  in  sec- 
tion fifty-three  of  this  act.     It  is  further  provided  that  in  no 
case,  either  of  agreement  or  assessment,  shall   the  aggregate 
amount  of  special  benefits  exceed  the  cost  of  such  improvement  to^xcfe^the 
including  damages  paid  and  construction  expenses  as  estimated  cost> 
by  the  committee  aforesaid. 

SEC.  36.     The  common  council  shall  have  power  from  time  to  sj,dtteralk  and 
time  to  designate  and  fix  the  course,  width,  height,  and  grade  grades, 
of  all  sidewalks  and  gutters  upon  the  streets  and  highways  of 
said  city,  and  may,  at  the  expense  of  said  city,  cause  any  of  the 
crosswalks  in  said  city  to  be   raised,  flagged,  paved,  or  made  Crosswalks. 
in  a  suitable  manner. 


30 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER. 


iaidlbg'S  l°  be 

property 

owners. 


Common 
limit  time 
tion'of. 


non-resi° 
dents. 


sidewalks, 

etc.,  council 

may  adjust 

the  expense 

of. 


^EC<  ^'     ^a^  common  council  may,  from  time  to  time,  or- 

r  ^ie  owner  or  owners  of  the  land  and  buildings  fronting  on 
8uch  sidewalks  and  gutters,  at  their  own  expense,  to  make  such 
sidewalks,  and  gutters,  on  their  several  fronts,  according  to  the 
course,  width,  height,  and  grade  designated  as  aforesaid  ;  and 
also  to  curb,  flag,  or  pave  the  same  in  such  manner  as  the  com- 
mon council  shall  direct  ;  and  also  to  provide  and  erect  such 
railings  or  guards  upon  and  along  said  walks  as  public  safety 
may  require.  And  said  common  council  may  limite  such  time  as 
it  may  deem  reasonable  for  so  fencing,  paving,  or  flagging,  rail- 
ing  and  curbing  such  sidewalks  and  gutters  as  aforesaid,  among 
the  different  persons  having  an  interest  in  the  lands  or  buildings 
holden  as  aforesaid  ;  and  whenever  the  owner  or  owners  of  an}r 
ian(j  or  buildings  shall  not  reside  within  the  limits  of  the  city, 
notice  in  writing  to  the  occupant  or  occupants,  or  persons  hav- 
ing the  care  thereof,  of  any  such  order  shall  bo  sufficient  notice 
thereof  to  all  persons  interested  therein. 

^ECi  **8.  Whenever  a  sidewalk  has  been  laid  by  an  adjoin- 
lr}%  land-owner  under  any  order  of  the  common  council  of  said 
c*^'  an(*  uPon  a  SrSL&Q  furnished  by  competent  city  authority, 
and  it  is  deemed  necessary  by  said  common  council,  at  any  time 
within  ten  years  thereafter,  to  alter  or  change  such  grade  and 
relay  such  sidewalk,  such  alteration  or  change  of  grade  and  re- 
laying of  sidewalk  shall  be  done  at  the  expense  of  the  city  ; 
provided,  that  in  all  cases  where  an  alteration  or  change  of 
grade,  or  the  relaying  of  any  sidewalk  is  made  necessary  by  an 
alteration  or  change  of  any  street  line,  the  expense  thereof 
shall  be  chargeable  as  is  now  provided  by  law.  The  provisions 
of  this  section  shall  extend  and  apply  to  sidewalks  already 
formed,  and  flagged  or  paved  in  compliance  with  the  orders  of 
the  common  council. 

SEC.  39.     If  any  owner  or  owners  of  any  such  land  or  build- 

. 

ings  shall  neglect  to  make,   pave,   rail,   flag,  or  curb  any  such 

., 

sidewalk  or  gutter,  in  such  manner,  and  within  such  time  as  the 
common  council  shall  direct  and  limit,  the  said  common  council 
maj7  appoint  and  employ  some  suitable  person  to  do  the  same, 
and  may  adjust  and  liquidate  the  expense  thereof,  and  order 
the  same  to  be  paid  by  such  owner  or  owners  neglecting  as 
aforesaid.  In  cases  where  the  land  or  buildings  fronting  such 
sidewalks  or  gutters  shall  be  holden  for  a  term  of  years,  or  any 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER.  31 

other  estate  less  than  a  fee  simple,  said  common  council  may, 
by  its  order,  apportion  in  such  manner  as  it  shall  judge  right, 
the  expense  of  raising,  grading,  forming,  flagging,  paving,  or 
making  such  sidewalks  and  gutters  among  the  different  persons 

having  an  interest  in  the  land  or  building  holden  as  aforesaid.  Cost  of  walks 

to  be  a  lien 
Thereupon  the  mayor  of  said  city  may  issue  a  warrant  of  dis-  upon  the 

property. 

tress,  authorizing  the  cit}'  collector  to  collect  of  said  owner  or 
owners  the  sums  ordered  to  be  paid  by  them  respectively  as 
aforesaid,  and  such  sums,  with  the  interest  thereon,  shall  be  a 
lien  or  real  encumbrance  upon  the  land  and  buildings  in  refer- 
ence to  which  such  sums  shall  have  been  expended,  to  be  en- 
forced in  like  manner  as  if  said  land  and  buildings  were  mort- 
gaged to  said  city  to  secure  the  payment  thereof :  provided,  tobeSre^hen 
however,  that  such  lien  shall  not  continue  to  exist  for  a  period  made  and°re- 
longer  than  sixty  days  after  the  completion  of  the  work  on  ac- leased- 
count  of  which  it  exists,  unless,  within  that  period,  a  certificate 
signed  b}-  the  mayor  of  said  city  or  the  clerk  of  said  common 
council,  describing  the  premises  on  which  such  lien  exists 
and  the  amount  claimed  by  said  cit}T  as  a  lien  thereon,  shall  be 
lodged  with  the  town  clerk  of  the  town  of  New  Britain  ;  and 
provided,  further,  that  such  lien  shall  cease  to  exist  when- 
ever a  certificate  to  that  effect,  signed  by  the  mayor  or  clerk 
of  the  common  council  for  the  time  being,  shall  be  lodged  with 
said  town  clerk.  All  such  certificates  said  town  clerk  shall  re- 
cord with  the  deeds  of  land. 

SKC.  40      The  common  council  of  said  city  shall  have  sole  Highways, 

powers  of 

and  exclusive  authoritv  and  control  over  all  streets  and  high-  council  in  re- 
ference to. 
ways  and  over  all   parts    of    streets    and    highways,    now    or 

hereafter  existing  within  the  limits  of  said  city,  and  shall 
have  sole  and  exclusive  power  to  lay  out,  open,  make,  dis- 
continue, alter,  repair,  maintain,  grade,  and  drain  all  high- 
ways and  streets  now  existing  or  hereafter  to  be  made  or  dis- 
continued within  the  limits  of  said  city ;  and  no  person  shall 
open  within  the  limits  of  said  city  any  public  way,  except  under 
and  by  virtue  of  an  order  of  said  common  council ;  and  said 
common  council  shall  have  power  to  elect,  annually,  a  street 
commissioner  for  said  city,  who  shall  hold  his  office  for  one  year 
from  and  after  his  election,  unless  removed  for  cause  ;  and  said 
common  council  shall  define  by  proper  ordinances  and  orders 
the  powers  and  duties  of  the  commissioner,  and  shall  fix  and 
designate  his  compensation. 


32 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER. 


Town  appro- 
priations for 
highways. 


Aldermen 
and  select- 
men to  ap- 
portion. 


County  com- 
missioner to 
have  decid- 
ing vote. 


Town  to  care 
for  bridges. 


Street  lay- 
outs, etc., 
notice  of 
hearing. 


Publication. 


Committee 
on  lay-out. 


SEC.  41.  In  all  cases  when  a  tax  shall  be  laid  and  collected 
or  a  sum  of  money  shall  be  appropriated  by  the  town  of  New 
Britain,  for  the  purpose  of  making  and  repairing  the  highways 
and  roads  in  said  town,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  selectmen  of 
said  town,  together  with  an  equal  number  of  the  aldermen 
of  said  city,  to  determine  by  a  major  vote  of  the  whole  number 
the  portion  thereof  which  shall  be  applied  for  the  making  and 
support  of  the  highways  of  said  town  within  the  limits  of  said 
city  ;  and  in  case  the  selectmen  and  aldermen  cannot  agree  by  a 
major  vote,  as  aforesaid,  upon  such  apportionment,  the  county 
commissioner  of  Hartford  county  residing  nearest  to  said  city 
shall  be  called  in  to  give  a  deciding  vote.  The  sum  thus  appor- 
tioned shall  be  paid  into  the  treasury  of  said  cit}- ;  and  said  town 
shall  not  be  obliged  to  make  or  repair  any  highwa}*  in  the  limits 
of  said  city ;  provided  always,  that  the  town  of  New  Britain 
shall  be  liable  to  make  and  repair  all  bridges  in  said  town  to  the 
same  extent  as  if  this  act  had  not  been  passed. 

SEC.  42.  Before  the  common  council  shall  determine  to  lay 
out,  alter,  extend,  enlarge,  discontinue,  or  change  anj*  highway, 
street,  public  walk,  or  public  avenue,  or  designate  any  building 
line  in  said  city,  it  shall  cause  a  notice,  signed  by  the  mayor  of 
said  city  or  the  clerk  of  said  council,  describing  in  general  terms 
such  proposed  lay-out  or  alteration  or  designation,  and  specify- 
ing a  time  and  place  when  and  where  all  persons  whose  land  is 
proposed  to  be  taken  therefor  ma}'  appear  and  be  heard  b}T  said 
common  council  in  relation  thereto — to  be  published  not  less 
than  two  times  in  not  more  than  one  daily  newspaper  published 
in  said  cit}-,  at  least  ten  days  before  the  time  fixed  in  said  no- 
tice for  such  hearing ;  and  such  publication  of  said  notice  shall 
be  legal  and  sufficient  notice  to  all  persons  and  corporations 
whose  land  is  proposed  to  be  taken  by  such  lay-out  or  altera- 
tion. At  the  time  and  place  mentioned  in  said  notice,  and  at 
any  meeting  adjourned  therefrom,  said  common  council  shall 
hear  all  the  parties  in  interest  who  may  appear  and  desire  to  be 
heard  in  relation  thereto. 

SEC.  43.  If  after  such  hearing,  said  common  council  shall 
resolve  to  lay  out,  alter,  extend,  enlarge,  discontinue,  or  change 
such  street,  highway,  walk,  or  avenue,  or  designate  such  build- 
ing line  or  lines,  it  shall  appoint  a  committee  whose  duty  it 
shall  be  to  make  such  lay-out  or  alteration,  and  designate  such 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER.  33 

building  line  or  lines,  and  report  in  writing  its  doings  to  said 
common  council,  which  report  shall  embody  a  descriptive  sur- 
vey of  such  street,  highway,  walk,  avenue,  line,  or  lines  desig- 
nated. If  said  report  shall  be  accepted  and  approved  by  said 
common  council,  it  shall  at  once  be  referred  by  said  common 
council  to  the  board  of  street  commissioners,  to  estimate  and 
appraise  the  damages,  or  benefits,  as  the  case  maybe,  resulting  Damages  and 
or  accruing  to  any  person  or  persons  from  the  taking  of  such 
land  for  public  use  as  aforesaid,  or  from  such  lay-out,  alteration, 
extension,  enlargement,  discontinuance,  change,  or  designation 
of  such  line  or  lines. 

SEC.  44.  Said  board  of  street  commissioners  shall 
six  freeholders  of  the  city  of  New  Britain,  who  shall  not 
members  of  the  common  council.  The  mayor  of  said  city  of  pointed. 
New  Britain  shall,  by  and  with  the  consent  of  three  of  the  al- 
dermen thereof,  on  or  after  the  third  Wednesday  of  April, 
1896,  appoint  two  members  of  said  board  who  shall  hold  office 
for  the  term  of  one  year,  two  who  shall  hold  office  for  two  years, 
and  two  who  shall  hold  office  for  three  years,  from  the  first 
Wednesday  of  May,  1896,  and  shall  annually  thereafter  appoint, 
in  the  manner  above  provided,  two  members  of  said  board  who 
shall  hold  office  for  the  term  of  three  years  from  the  first  Wed- 
nesday of  May  of  the  year  in  which  they  are  so  appointed, 
and  until  their  respective  successors  shall  be  appointed  and 
qualified,  unless  removed  for  cause,  and  the  appointment  of  the 
members  of  said  board  shall  be  made  in  such  a  manner  as  to 
divide  the  membership  thereof  as  nearly  as  may  be,  equally  be- 
tween the  two  leading  political  parties  for  the  time  being. 

SEC.  45.     Said  board  of  street  commissioners  shall  act  as  a  TO  assess 
court  for  the  assessment  of  betterments   and  the  appraisal  of  appra1tsseand 
damages ;  provided,  the  common  council  shall  have  power  todamages- 
pass  ordinances  not  inconsistent  herewith,  prescribing  the  man- 
ner of  procedure  in  such  assessment  and  appraisal. 

SEC.  46.     The  members  of  said  board  shall  be  sworn  by  theBoardof 
clerk  of  said  city  to  a  faithful  and  impartial  discharge  of  t&cfrSSa^tSre' 
duties,  and  a  certificate  of  such  appointment,   and  the  admin-  <iualify- 
istration  of  such  oath,  shall  be  made  and  recorded  in  the  rec- 
ords of  the  city . 

SEC.  47.     Whenever  a  vacancy  shall  occur  in  said  board  of  Vacancy  in 

•      •  -,     i     11  i       ^11    T    •       ,1  .1     ,  board,  how- 

Street  commissioners,  it  shall  be  filled  in  the  manner   provided  filled. 

5 


84  NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER. 

aforesaid  for  the  appointment  of  members,  and  whenever  more 
Di*quaiiflca-  than  one  of  the  members  of  said  board  shall  be  disqualified,  by 
interest  or  otherwise,  from  acting  in  any  case  before  said  board, 
the  mayor  of  said  city,  by  and  with  the  consent  of  any  three  of 
the  aldermen  of  said  city,  may  appoint  one  or  more  disinterested 
freeholders  of  said  city  to  fill  the  place  or  places  of  the  mem- 
ber or  members  so  disqualified,  and  such  persons  having  been 
sworn  by  the  clerk  of  said  city  to  a  faithful  and  impartial  dis- 
charge of  their  duties,  and  a  certificate  of  such  appointment, 
and  the  administration  of  such  oaths  having  been  recorded  in 
the  records  of  said  city,  all  the  proceedings  before  said  board 
shall  be  as  now  provided  for  in  this  act. 
compensa-  SEC.  48.  The  persons  appointed  in  accordance  with  the  pre- 

tion. 

ceding  section  shall  receive  the  same  compensation  as  the  reg- 
ular members  of  said  board,  but  they  shall  act  only  in  the  cases 
for  which  they  were  appointed,  and  in  all  other  cases  the  regu- 
lar members  of  said  board  shall  act. 

Mayor  may        §EC    49      The  mayor  of  said  city,  by  and  with  the  consent 
remove.  J  J       J 

of  any  three  of  the  aldermen,  may  remove  any  member  of  said 
board  for  cause. 
Appraisal  of       SEC.  50.     In  all  cases  when  it  becomes  necessary  to  estimate 

damages  and 

benefits,  how  and  appraise  the  damages  or  benefits,  as  the    case  may   be,  re- 
made. 

suiting  or  accruing  to  any  person  or  persons  from  the  taking  of 

land,  or  any  interest  therein,  for  public  use,  or  from  the  la}7- 
ing  out,  alteration,  construction,  extension,  enlargement,  dis- 
continuance, or  change  of  any  street,  highway,  public  walk, 
sewer  or  avenue,  or  designation  of  any  building  line  or  lines,  as 
provided  in  the  charter  of  said  city  of  New  Britain,  or  when- 
ever the  common  council  shall  order  the  paving  of  an}"  street  or 
highway,  or  any  part  thereof,  the  common  council  shall  formally 
refer  the  matter  to  the  board  of  street  commissioners,  together 
with  the  order  of  the  common  council  under  which  said  change 
or  improvement  is  made,  accompanied  by  suitable  maps  or 
written  description,  clearly  explaining  the  contemplated  improve- 
ment, and  showing  the  adjoining  land  and  owners  thereof,  and 
shall  then,  before  making  any  assessment  of  damages  and  benefits, 
pe^sonsiii-  g*ve  reasonable  notice  to  all  persons  interested  in  said  proposed 
improvement  of  the  time  and  place  when  and  where  it  will  meet 
for  that  purpose  ;  such  notice  shall  be  deemed  reasonable  and 
sufficient  if  signed  by  the  members  of  said  board,  or  a  majority  of 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITT  CHARTER.  85 

them, and  published  in  the  same  manner  as  provided  to  be  done 
by  the  common  council  in  section  fort}'  two  of  this  act,  or  if  given 
in  such  other  manner  as  by  an  ordinance  of  the  common  coun- 
cil is  now  or  may  be  prescribed  ;  said  board  shall  meet  at 
the  time  and  place  designated  in  its  said  notice,  and  at  such 
other  times  and  places  as  it  may  adjourn  therefrom,  and  all 
parties  in  interest  may  appear  before  said  commissioners  and  be 
heard  with  witnesses  relative  to  the  amount  of  damages  or  bet-  Hearing, 
terments,  or  both,  to  be  appraised  or  assessed  to  them  re- 
spectively, and  said  commissioners  shall  examine  said  parties 
and  witnesses  under  oath  ;  thereupon  said  board  shall  proceed 
to  assess  all  betterments  or  benefits,  and  to  appraise  all  damages 
therefor  to  the  persons  liable  to  such  betterments  or  entitled  to 
such  damages,  including  the  damages  for  building  lines  in  case 
of  new  streets  or  alteration  of  existing  streets,  upon  the  proper 
parties  or  land  specially  benefited  by  said  proposed  improve- 
ment, in  proportion  to  the  benefits  or  damages  to  each  respec-  mmst'not  ex- 
tively  ;  provided,  that  the  whole  amount  of  benefits  assessed  for  £ge»  nnddthe " 
any  particular  lay-out,  alteration,  designation,  or  other  improve-  i^fprove^6 
ment  shall  not  exceed  the  whole  amount  of  damages  assessed  ments- 
on  account  of  the  same  lay-out,  alteration,  designation,  or  im- 
provement and  the  estimated  cost  of  constructing  and  com- 
pleting said  improvement,  which  estimate  said  board  shall  make 
and  take  into  consideration  in  its  assessments  as  provided  in 
this  section,  and  shall  also  embody  said  estimate  in  the  report  of 
its  doings,  which  report  shall  be  made  as  soon  as  may  be  to  the 

.,...,..,.,  .  ,          Council  may 

common  council  of  said  city,  which  may  accept  and  adopt  said  re-  adopt  or  re- 
port or  return  the  same  to  said  board  for  reconsideration  and  cor-  port  of  th?" 
rection  ;  provided,  however,  that  if  after  said  report  has  been  re- 
turned to  said  board  for  reconsideration  and  correction,  and  upon 
its  further  return  to  said  common  council,  said  common  council 
shall  be  of  the  opinion  that  it  will  not  be  for  the  best  interest  of 
said  city  to  make  said  proposed  improvement  on  account  of  the 
expense  thereof,  it  ma}-,   unless  work  upon  said  improvement 
has  been  actually  begun,  accept   said  report   and   discontinue  discontinuT 
further  proceedings  in  regard  to  the  proposed  improvements,  proceedlngs 
without  liability  to  any  person  or  corporation  interested  therein, 
and  in  case  of  such  discontinuance  no  right  of  action  shall  accrue 
to  said  city  to  recover  an}'  betterments  assessed  in  said  report 
on  account  of  such  proposed  improvement ;  upon  the  accept- 


36  NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER. 

Record  to  b«  ance  an(j  adoption  of  said   report,  the  clerk  of  the   common 

made  by 

clerk  of  the    council  shall  record  the  same  in  the   records   of  the  common 

common  .  . 

council.  council,  and  said  common  council  shall  cause  a  notice,  signed 
by  the  mayor  or  clerk  of  said  common  council,  containing 
the  names  of  the  persons  thus  assessed,  with  the  amounts  of 

Publication,  their  respective  assessments,  to  be  published  not  less  than  two 
times  in  not  more  than  one  daily  newspaper  published  in  said 
city,  and  such  publication  shall  be  deemed  to  be  legal  and  suf- 
ficient notice  to  all  persons  interested  in  such  assessments,  and 
the  same  shall  thereupon  immediately  become  due  and  payable. 

Payment  of    The  common  council  shall  order  the  damages  thus  assessed  and 

damages. 

determined  to  be  paid  to  the  persons  to  whom  they  respectivel}' 
Damages  not  belong  out  of  the  treasury  of  the  citv  ;  provided,   that   if  any 

tHk.Mitobe  ,  ,,         , 

deposited       person  shall  refuse  or  neglect  to  receive  the  amount   so  round 
urer.  due  and  ordered  to  be  paid  to  him,  the  same  shall  be  deposited 

in  the  city  treasury,  to  be  paid  to  the  person  entitled  to  receive 
it  whenever  he  shall  apply  for  the  same.  And  the  descriptive 
survey  before  mentioned,  being  signed  by  the  ma3-or  or  person 
lawfully  acting  in  his  stead,  and  entered  upon  the  records  of 
said  common  council,  and  the  damages  assessed  having  been 
paid  or  deposited  as  aforesaid,  said  highway,  street,  public 
walk,  or  building  line  shall  be  and  remain  for  the  purpose  for 
which  it  was  laid  out  or  designated. 
Sewer  assess-  gEC<  51,  Upon  the  execution  of  any  order  of  the  common 

ments,  how  J 

made.  council  of  said  city  for  the  construction  of  any  lateral  branch  or 

connecting  public  sewer,  there  may  be  assessed  by  the  board  of 
street  commissioners  of  said  city,  upon  all  persons  whose  prop- 
erty is,  in  the  judgment  of  said  board,  especially  benefited 
thereby,  a  reasonable  part  of  the  expense  of  such  lateral  branch 
or  connecting  public  sewer,  and  of  the  main  or  trunk  sewer  into 
and  through  which  such  lateral  branch  or  connecting  sewer  is 
-  discnarged  ?  cdways  provided,  that  no  person  shall  be  assessed 
r  8ewer  Purpose8  under  this  act  beyond  the  amount  to  which 

flts-  his  property  is  especially  benefited,  whether  the  property  on  ac- 

count of  which  such  assessments  are  made  be  located  along  the 
line  of  a  main  or  trunk  sewer,  or  of  a  lateral  branch  or  connect- 
ing sewer. 

not  to8wtceed      ^EC.  ^'     ^°  Person  owning  land  fronting  on  the  line  of  a 

11.75  per  foot,  street  in  which  a  sewer  is  constructed  shall  be  assessed  more 
than  one  dollar  and  seventy-five  cents  per  front  foot  of  said 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER.  37 

land,  unless  in  the  opinion  of  said    street   commissioners   the 

owner  thereof  is  the   owner  of  land  in  the   rear   that   will   be 

specially  benefited  by   said  sewer.      No  assessment  or  better-  ^et^™^ 

ments  shall  be  made  until  the  sewer  on  which  assessments  areandcoi"ecfed. 

based  shall  be  completed,  and  no  assessment  of  benefits  for  sewer 

purposes  shall  be  collectible  until  the  completion  of  the  sewer  for 

which  the  party  or  parties  are  assessed. 

SEC.  53  The  assessments  of  benefits  made  by  said  board  Assessments 
shall  be  and  remain  a  lien  or  real  incumbrance  upon  the  land 
upon  which  they  are  respectively  made,  and  shall  take  prece- 
dence of  all  other  liens  or  incumbrances  thereon  (except  taxes 
due  the  state),  and  the  lands,  with  the  buildings  thereon,  on 
which  any  such  lien  may  exist,  shall  be  liable  to  be  foreclosed 
in  the  same  manner  as  if  said  lien  were  a  mortgage  on  such 
lands  and  buildings  in  favor  of  said  citj"  to  secure  the  amount  of 
such  assessments  ;  provided,  however,  that  such  lien  shall  not  Liens,  how 

.     ,  .  .     .  „.         ,,      continued 

continue  to  exist  for  a  period  longer  than  sixty  days  after  the  and  released, 
last  publication  of  the  notice  thereof  as  aforesaid  ;  unless  within 
that  period  a  certificate,  signed  by  the  mayor  of  said  city  or  the 
clerk  of  said  common  council,  describing  the  premises  on  which 
such  lien  exists  and  the  amount  claimed  by  said  city  as  a  lien 
thereon,  shall  be  lodged  with  the  town  clerk  of  the  town  of  New 
Britain  ;  and  provided  further,  that  such  lien  shall  cease  to  ex- 
ist whenever  a  certificate  to  that  effect,  signed  by  the  mayor 
or  clerk  of  the  common  council  for  the  time  being,  shall  be 
be  lodged  with  said  town  clerk.  All  such  certificates  said  town 
clerk  shall  record  with  deeds  of  land.  Such  assessments  may  Assessments, 
also  be  collected  by  warrant,  under  the  hand  of  the  mayor 
said  city,  in  the  same  manner  as  town  taxes  are  by  law  col- 
lected. 

SEC.  54.  In  all  cases  where  liens  are  created  on  account 
public  improvements  of  any  kind  in  said  city,  such  liens  shall,  £1nkenPeal  isj 
if  an  appeal  shall  be  taken  from  the  appraisal  of  damages  or  as- 
sessments of  benefits,  or  both,  continue  to  exist  for  a  period  of 
sixty  days  after  the  passage  of  the  final  decree  of  the  court  or 
judge  having  jurisdiction  of  such  appeal,  or  after  termination  of 
the  appeal  proceedings,  but  not  longer,  unless  within  such  time 
a  certificate,  signed  by  the  mayor  of  said  city  or  the  clerk  of  the 
common  council  thereof,  describing  the  premises  on  which  such 
lien  exists,  and  the  amount  claimed  by  said  city  as  a  lien  there- 


38  NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER. 

on,  shall  be  lodged  with  the  town  clerk  of  the  town   of  New 

Appeals  from  Britain' 

the  estimates      §Ec.  55.     All  persons  aggrieved  by  the  estimate  of  the  board 

of  the  board  * 

of  street  com- of  street  commissioners  of  any  damage  caused  by  the   layout, 

mlssloners.  ,  .    , 

discontinuance,  alteration,  or  enlargement  of  any  highway  or 
street,  or  the  designation  of  building  lines,  and  all  persons  ag- 
grieved by  the  assessment  of  benefits  consequent  thereon,  or 
consequent  upon  the  construction  of  any  sewer  or  drain  by  the 

Shall  be  '  „          , 

made  by  peti- common  council,  may  within  ten  days  after  notice  ol  sucn  esti- 

tlon  within  .     ,  *     ., 

ten  days.  mate  or  assessment,  apply  by  petition  to  any  judge  ot  tne 
court  of  common  pleas  of  Hartford  county  for  a  re-estimate  of 
such  damages  or  re-assessment  of  such  sum  ordered  to  be  paid 

heard  by  a      by  them,  and  such  appeals  may  he   heard  by  said  judge,   but 

if  desired.       shall  upon  the  motion  of  any  party  thereto  or  any  person  inter- 

Appeais         ested  therein  be  referred  to  a  committee  for  hearing. 

Prmisais"of  SEC-  56-  Appeals  may  be  taken  from  the  assessments  of 
benefits  only;  but^  if  taken  froni  tQe  appraisal  of  damages, 
sna^  "3e  ^rom  tae  8a^  appraisal  and  also  from  the  assessment  of 

of  benefits,  benefits  made  at  the  same  time  and  for  the  same  public  work. 
As  many  of  the  parties  interested  as  may  choose  to  do  so  may 
join  in  such  appeal ;  and  when  separate  appeals  are  taken  by 

tions,  how  to  different  parties  from  one  assessment  and  appraisal,   all   such 

be  drawn  and 

when  return-  appeals  shall  be  heard  and  tried  as  one  cause.      When  an  ap- 

able. 

peal  shall  be  taken  said  board  shall  instruct  and  aid  the  cor- 
poration counsel  in  the  matter  of  said  appeal  until  the  same 
shall  be  determined.  Such  appeal  shall  be  taken  within  ten 
days  after  public  notice  shall  be  given  of  such  appraisal  or  as- 
sessment, and  shall  be  by  a  suitable  petition  in  writing,  setting 
forth  the  whole  of  said  assessment  appealed  from,  and  asking 
for  a  reappraisal  and  re-assessment,  or  for  a  re-assessment  only, 
with  a  citation  attached  thereto,  signed  by  any  authority  au- 
thorized to  sign  writs,  returnable  before  said  judge  at  two 
o'clock  p.  m.  on  the  day  three  weeks  subsequent  to  the  day  on 
which  public  notice  of  said  appraisal  shall  have  been  given  ;  and 
said  citation  shall  be  served  upon  the  clerk  of  said  city  at  least 

six  days  before  the  return  thereof. 

Re-assess-  Kn 

ments,  when       SEC.  57.     If,  upon  the  hearing  of  any  appeal,  said  judge   or 

to  be  made.  .  J 

committee  shall  find  cause  to  alter  said  assessment,  or  said  ap- 
praisal and  assessment,  then  said  judge  or  committee  shall  pro- 
ceed to  re-assess  the  whole  amount  of  the  damages  or  cost  of 


NKW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER.  89 

construction,  or  both,  upon  the  persons  or  land   specially   bene- 
fited. 

SEC.  58.  If  the  judge  or  committee  hearing  said  appeal  ^"won'a^d 
shall  alter  said  assessment,  or  said  appraisal  and  assessment,  k°w  given, 
as  aforesaid,  then  said  judge  and  committee  shall  cause  notice 
of  the  pendenc}*  of  the  proceedings  before  him  to  be  given  to  all 
persons  interested  in  said  improvement,  which  notice  shall  be 
by  citation  served  upon  such  persons  or  left  at  their  usual  place 
of  abode,  giving  such  time  for  appearance  and  served  in  such 
manner  as  said  judge  or  committee  shall  direct,  or  by  publica- 
tion in  not  more  than  one  dail}"  newspaper  published  in  said 
city,  for  such  time  in  said  form  as  said  judge  or  committee  shall 
direct. 

SEC.  59.     Said  judge  shall  have,  for  the  purpose  of  dispos- ?fdwg^rfn0*p. 
ing  of  said  appeal,  all  the  power  of  the  superior  court,  and  may  Peaicases- 
render  judgment  thereon,  and  may  tax  costs  in  favor  of  either  TO  tax  costs, 
party,  and  issue  execution  for  said  costs,   to  be  taxed  as  upon 
civil  process  in  the  superior  court. 

SEC.  60.     Said  judge  shall,  when  the  proceedings  in  any  case  Judge  to  re- 

J  J  turn  papers 

arising  under  this  act  are  closed,   return  all  papers  connected  *** clty clerk, 
with  the  case  to  the  clerk  of  said  city,  to  be  by  him  kept  on  file. 

SEC.  61.  The  court  now  existing  under  the  name  of  the  city  Oity  court, 
court  of  the  city  of  New  Britain  shall  continue  to  be  holden  un- 
der said  name  on  the  first  Monday  of  every  month,  commencing 
at  two  o'clock  in  the  afternoon  of  said  day  ;  said  court  shall 
have  power  to  adjourn  from  time  to  time,  and  shall  have  original 
and  final  jurisdiction  in  all  civil  causes,  and  over  all  suits  in  Jurisdiction, 
equity  (excepting  suits  for  relief  against  any  cause  depending 
or  judgment  rendered  in  the  superior  court,  or  court  of  common 
pleas),  which  shall  be  brought  before  it  according  to  law,  in 
which  the  debt,  damages,  or  matter  in  demand  exceeds  the 
jurisdiction  of  a  justice  of  the  peace,  and  does  not  exceed  the 
sum  of  five  hundred  dollars  ;  provided,  the  cause  of  the  proceed- 
ings in  equity  originated  and  one  or  both  of  the  parties  reside 
within  the  limits  of  said  town  of  New  Britain,  and  the  premises 
in  question,  in  cases  of  foreclosure  or  other  proceedings  relat- 
ing to  real  estate,  shall  be  situated  in  said  town ;  but  said  court 
shall  have  jurisdiction  of  all  cases  brought  to  recover  penalties 
or  forfeitures  under  the  orders  or  ordinances  of  said  city  or  the 
provisions  of  this  act.  And  in  all  cases  in  which  the  matter  in 


40 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER. 


Practice  and 
proceeding. 


Judge, 
chosen  by 
general  as- 
sembly. 


Term  of 
office. 


Assistant 
judge  chosen 
by  general 
assembly. 


Assistant 
judge, 
powers  of. 


Substitute 
judge,  pay  of. 


demand  shall  exceed  the  sum  of  three  hundred  dollars  an  ap- 
peal from  any  final  judgment  rendered  therein  shall  be  had  and 
allowed  to  either  party,  upon  giving  bond,  with  surety  to  the 
satisfaction  of  the  judge  of  said  court,  to  the  next  superior 
court  of  the  county  of  Hartford. 

The  course  of  practice  and  manner  of  proceeding  in  said 
court  shall  be  conformable  to  that  in  the  superior  court  so  far  as 
is  practicable,  and  all  statutory  provisions  regarding  the  trial, 
disposition  of,  and  mode  of  proceeding  in  cases  in  the  superior 
court  shall  be  applicable,  so  far  as  is  practicable,  to  cases  in 
said  city  court,  except  otherwise  herein  provided. 

SEC.  62.  There  shall  be  a  judge  for  said  court,  who  shall  be 
chosen  by  the  general  assembly  ;  he  shall  enter  upon  the  duties 
of  his  office  on  the  first  Monday  of  July  nexi  following  his  said 
election,  and  shall  hold  the  same  for  a  period  of  two  years,  and 
until  another  is  chosen  and  sworn  in  his  stead,  and  the  oath  to 
be  taken  by  said  judge  shall  be  the  same  mutatis  mutandis,  as 
the  oath  provided  by  law  to  be  taken  by  executive  and  judicial 
officers. 

SEC.  63.  There  shall  also  be  an  assistant  judge  for  said 
court,  who  shall  be  chosen  by  the  general  assembly,  and  shall 
hold  office  for  the  same  term  as  the  judge  thereof,  and  shall  be 
qualified  in  the  manner  provided  by  law  for  the  qualification  of 
said  judge. 

He  shall  have  the  powers  and  perform  the  duties  of  the  judge 
of  said  court  during  the  absence,  inability,  or  disqualification  of 
such  judge,  and  in  case  of  the  death  or  resignation  of  such 
judge  he  shall  continue  to  perform  the  duties  until  the  end  of 
the  term. 

In  case  both  judge  and  assistant  judge  shall  be  disqualified  or 
unable  to  act  in  an}*  civil  cause,  either  the  judge  or  clerk  of  said 
court  may  request  in  writing  the  judge  of  the  city  court  of  the  city 
of  Hartford,  or  the  judge  of  the  city  court  of  the  city  of  Meriden, 
or  the  judge  of  the  city  court  of  the  city  of  Middletown,  or  the 
judge  of  the  town  court  of  Bristol,  to  act  in  place  of  the  judge 
of  said  city  court,  and  said  judge,  while  so  acting,  shall  have  all 
the  powers  and  perform  the  duties  of  the  judge  of  said  court 
during  such  disqualification,  absence,  or  inability  of  the  judge 
or  assistant  judge,  and  shall  be  paid  while  so  acting  the  sum  of 
seven  dollars  and  fifty  cents  per  diem  from  the  treasury  of  said 
city. 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITT  CHARTER.  41 

SEC.  64.  Said  court  shall  have  power  to  appoint  and  swear  £uy  court"?  e 
a  clerk  of  said  court,  to  continue  in  office  during  the  pleasure  of 
said  court,  who  shall  as  to  matters  relative  to  his  office  as  clerk 
of  said  court  have  the  same  power  and  authority  and  be  entitled 
to  the  same  fees  as  clerks  of  superior  courts,  and  the  oath  to  be  Fees- 
taken  by  the  clerk  shall  be  the  same,  mutatis  mutandis,  as  the 
oath  provided  by  law  to  be  taken  by  clerks  of  superior  courts. 
It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  clerk  of  said  city  court,  upon  the  allow- 
ance of  any  appeal  from  said  court,  to  make  a  true  and  attested 
copy  of  the  record  in  such  cause  for  the  party  appealing,  and  he 
shall  receive  therefor  such  fees  as  are  or  may  be  allowed  by  law 
to  the  clerks  of  the  superior  court  for  copies. 

SEC.  65.  The  common  council  of  said  city  of  New  Britain 
shall  have  power  to  appoint  an  attorney,  who  shall  be  counsel 
to  the  corporation,  also  an  assistant  attorney  to  act  in  his  ab-  appointed. 
sence,  or  at  his  request,  both  of  whom  shall  be  sworn  to  a  faith- 
ful discharge  of  the  duties  of  their  office,  and  such  attorney  or  J°Jj[|^^Ild 
corporation  counsel  shall  have  power  to  conduct  all  civil  cases 
and  matters  of  every  description  in  which  the  city  is  interested, 
and  to  bring  civil  actions,  and  to  defend  civil  actions  and  pro- 
ceedings of  every  name  and  nature  in  the  name  of  the  city  of 
New  Britain  before  all  courts,  and  shall  appear  in  all  civil 
actions  brought  for  or  against  the  city  ;  additional  counsel  to  as-  Additional 

counsel,  how 

sist  the  corporation  counsel  may  be  employed  by  the  latter  only  employed. 
by  consent  of  the  mayor. 

The  common  council  of  said  city  of  New  Britain  shall  also  attorney, 
have  power  to  appoint  a  prosecuting  attorney,  who  shall  prose-  pointed. 
cute  all  criminal  matters  and  cases  before  the  police  court,   and 
shall  have  all  the  powers  of  grand  jurors  of  towns.     In  case  o 
absence  or  inabilit}-  of  the  prosecuting  attorney  to  act,  the  as- 
sistant  attorney  for  said  city  shall  have  all  the  powers  a/id  per-  Assi|yat10ta^.tt" 
form  all  the  duties  of  prosecuting  attorney  during  such  absence  as 


or  inability,  and  shall  receive  in  compensation  for  his  services,  when. 

Compensa- 

while  so  acting,  the  fees  allowed  by  law  to  grand  jurors.  tion. 

u    -j  .,  .    .   ^,  Office  of  cor- 

baicl  common  council  may  appoint  the  same  person  corpora-  p0ration 
tion  counsel  and  prosecuting  attorney,  or  may  appoint  different  0?p?osecu\- 
individuals  to  the  separate  offices.     Upon   entering   upon   the  mayabe°h°  w 
duties  of  his'  office,  the  prosecuting  attorney  shall  take  the  oath  peVsSn 
required  by  law  of  grand  jurors.  ft*'™  "ng 

SEC.  66.     The  process  in  all  actions   brought  to   said   city  Qualification 

6 


42  HEW  BRITAIH  CITT  CHARTER. 

processurt  court  shall  be  the  same  as  process  to  the  superior  courts  ;  which 
process  may  be  signed  by  any  officer  of  this  state  authorized  to 
sign  writs  and  judicial  processes,  or  by  the  judge  or  clerk  of 
said  city  court,  and  may  be  served  by  any  officer  duly  qualified 
under  the  laws  of  this  state  to  serve  writs  aud  other  judicial 
processes,  or  by  the  sheriff  of  said  city,  or  by  an  indifferent 
person  deputed  to  serve  the  same,  to  whom  directed  according 

Bonds.  to,  law  and  the  provisions  of  this  act  ;  and  all  bonds  of  prosecu- 

tion taken  by  any  of  the  officers  empowered  to  sign  writs  shall 
be  good  and  effectual,  and  bonds  of  prosecution,  special  bail, 
and  bonds  for  writs  of  error  shall  be  taken  to  the  adverse  party. 

write."*  SEC.  67.     All  writs  shall  be  served  at  least  twelve  days  be- 

fore the  sitting  of  the  court  to  which  the  same  may  be  returna- 
ble ;  and  all  writs  returnable  to  said  court  shall  be  returned  to 
the  clerk  thereof  on  or  before  the  Friday  preceding  the  term  of 
court  to  which  the  same  may  be  returnable. 

Council  shall        0  .,       .,         .  n  .  , 

private  room      oEC.  68.     Ihe  common  council  of  said  city  shall  provide  a 
suitable  room  and   such  other   accommodations   for   said   city 
court,  including  records,  blanks,  stationery,  and  so  forth,  con- 
templated by  this  act,  as  said  judge  ma}'  deem  necessary. 
as-      SEC.  69.     The  salary  of  said  judge  shall  be  the  sum  of  one 


ge'  thousand  dollars  per  annum,  and  the  salary  of  the  assistant 
judge  shall  be  the  sum  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  per  an- 
num, and  shall  be  in  lieu  of  all  fees  whatsoever  for  services  as 
such  judge,  or  as-sistant  judge  ;  and  shall  be  paid  from  the  city 
treasury  in  such  manner  as  shall  be  provided  by  the  ordinances 
^y  treas-ofsa^  c^y  ^or  PayiQg  money  from  said  treasury.  All  fees 

byecierif.  pald  arismg  from  8aid  court  (except  clerk's  fees)  shall  be  paid  over 
by  the  clerk  of  said  court  to  the  city  treasurer  ;  said  clerk  may 
draw  his  order  upon  the  city  treasurer  for  all  jury,  witness,  and 

cierk  to         officers,  fees,  or  pay  the  same  from  any  funds  he  may  have  in 

(M.m'it'semi-    his  nands  ;  he  sual1  render  his  account  of  the  same  under  oath  to 

annually.        the  treasurer  of  said  city  semi-annually. 

.im-ors,  when       SEC.  70.     Whenever  either  party  to  any  cause   pending  be- 

iind  how  sum- 

moned. fore  said  city  court  desires  the  same  to  be  determined   by  jury, 

said  party  shall  so  notify  the  clerk  of  said  court,  in  writing. 
within  the  first  three  days  of  the  term  to  which  said  cause  is 
brought,  and  the  said  cause  in  such  case  shall  be  entered  on  the 
jury  docket  of  said  court  for  trial.  Whenever,  in  the  opinion 
of  the  judge,  a  jury  shall  be  needed  to  attend  upon  said  court, 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER.  48 

then,  by  his  direction,  the  clerk  shall  issue  a  warrant  directed  to 
the  sheriff  of  said  city  or  either  of  the  constables  of  said  town, 
commanding  the  officer  receiving  such  warrant  to  draw  and 
summon  such  jury,  and  such  officer  shall  thereupon  proceed  in 
the  manner  herein  provided. 

SEC.  71.     The  common  council  of  said  City  of  New  Britain,  meat  of 
on  the  third  Wednesd?iy  in  June,  annually  shall,  meet  and  then 
choose  sixty  <>r  more  electors  of  said  city  to  serve  as  jurors  at 
said  city  court,  and  shall  return  the  names  of  said  jurors  under 
the  hand  of  the  ma3ror,  if  present,  or  in  his  absence  under  the 
hand  of  the  president,  pro  tempore,  of  the  common   council,  or 
in  his  absence  under  the  hand  of  the  senior  alderman  present  at 
such  meeting,  to  the  clerk  of  said   city  court,  who  shall  write 
each  juror's  name  thus  chosen  fairly  on  separate  pieces  of  paper, 
and  roll  up  and  put  the  same  into  a  box  which  he  shall  provide 
and  keep  for  that  purpose  ;  and  whenever  the  sheriff  or  either  of  ^°^^um" 
the  constables  within  the  city  of  said  New  Britain  shall  receive  a 
warrant  from  the  cleik  of  said  city  court  to  summon  a  jury  to 
appear  before  said  court,  the   officer  receiving  such   warrant, 
taking  with  him  one  of  the  aldermen  of  the  city,  shall  repair  to 
the  said  clerk's  office,  and  there,  in  the  presence  of  such  alder- 
man and  clerk,   shall  take  out  of  said   box   so   many   of   said 
papers  as  his  warrant  shall  direct ;  and  the  persons  whose  names 
shall  be  found  written  thereon  shall  be  summoned  to  appear  be- 
fore the  court  to  which  the  warrant  is  returnable,   to  serve  as 
jurors ;  and  in  case  of  neglecting  to  attend,  shall  be  liable  to 
such  penalties  as  shall  by  the  ordinances  of  said  city  be  inflicted 
for  such  neglect.     Authority  to  enact  such  ordinances  is  hereby 
conferred  upon  the  common  council  of  said  City  of  New  Britain  ; 
and  in  case  any  juror  shall  be  challenged  or   excused,    and   a  TO  complete 
panel   cannot  be   completed   from   the  jurors   summoned,   the pf 
sheriff  or  other  officer  attending  said  court  shall  supply  such  de- 
ficiency by  drawing  in  the  presence  of  the  court,  others  out  of 
said  box,  and  summoning  them  to  attend  and  serve,   until  the 
panel  shall  be  complete.     The  name  of  each  juror  who  attends  Liability  of 
and  serves  in  said  court  shall  be  again  written  on  a  separate  piece  h"ive  rend- 
of  paper,  and  rolled  up  and  put  in  another  box,  provided  by  the  er 
clerk  for  that  purpose,  and  shall  be  liable   to   be   drawn  again 
only  when  there  shall  not,  by  reason  of  death,  removal,  or  other 
cause,  be  a  sufficient  number  in  the  first   box  to  complete  the 
panels  for  the  year  in  which  they  are  chosen  to  serve. 


44  NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER. 

Police  court.  SEC.  72.  The  police  court  now  existing  within  and  for  the 
city  of  New  Britain  shall  be  and  remain  a  police  court  within 

Judge.  and  for  said  city.  The  judge  of  the  city  court  for  said  city 

shall  be  judge  of  said  police  court,  which  said  judge  shall  have 
nnd  exercise  the  powers  by  law  now  vested  in  the  judge  of  said 
police  court,  and  such  other  powers  and  duties  as  are  conferred 

Assistant  an(j  imposed  on  such  police  judge  by  this  act.  In  case  said 
judge  shall  at  any  time  be  unable  or  disqualified  to  act  in  any 
cause,  the  assistant  judge  shall  perform  the  duties  of  the  judge 
of  said  court  during  such  absence,  inability,  or  disqualification 

when  a          of  such    judge.      In    case    both    judge     and  assistant  judge 

OT  tn.6 


. 

peace  may      shall  be  disqualified  or  unable  to  act,  the  clerk  of  the  court  or 
act  as  judge.  .  . 

prosecuting  attorney  ma}-  m  writing  request  a  justice  of  the 

peace,  resident  within  said  city  to  act  as  such  judge,  who  while 

so  acting  under  such  request,  shall  have   the  same   powers    as 

such  judge  would  have  in  like  case;   and  such   wriiten   request 

shall  be  recorded  and  kept  with  the  records  of  said  court  by  the 

clerk  of  the  same.     And  the  person  so  acting  in  the  place  and 

Fees  of  sub-    stead  of  such  judge  of  said  police  court  shall  have  the  same  fees 

as  are  by  law  allowed  a  justice  of  the  peace   in  criminal  cases, 

which  fees  shall  be  paid  in  the  same  manner  as  herein   provided 

for  the  payment  of  costs  to  parties  entitled  to  receive  them. 

Powers  of  SEC.  73.     From  and  after  the  time  when  said  judge  and  as- 

slstunP  jucfge  sistant  judge  shall  commence  the  discharge  of  their  official  du- 

or  substitute.  ,  .  /    ,  i          ,1  •  j    •     •>  •   , 

ties,  no  person  or  persons  (other  than  said  judge  or  assistant 
judge)  within  the  limits  of  said  city  and  town,  except  when  act- 
ing as  substitute,  as  hereinbefore  provided,  or  ma}'  be  provided 
in  the  subsequent  sections  of  this  act,  shall  have,  use,  or  exer- 
cise any  of  ihe  powers  specified  or  mentioned  in  the  preceding 
sections  of  this  act,  except  in  cases  herein  specially  provided 
for  ;  provided,  that  nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  so  construed  as 
to  prohibit  any  magistrate  now  authorized  by  law  to  issue  war- 
rants for  the  arrest  of  offenders  from  issuing  the  same  hereafter, 
or  to  prohibit  justices  of  the  peace  from  discharging  any  minis- 
terial duty  or  office  now  by  law  imposed  upon  them,  but  all 
warrants  issued  on  account  of  any  offense  committed  within  the 
jurisdiction  of  said  police  court  shall  command  the  officer  serv- 
ing the  same  to  arrest  the  offender  and  bring  him  before  the 
said  police  court,  who  shall  deal  with  him  in  the  same  manner 
whether  such  warrant  shall  have  been  issued  by  any  magistrate 
as  aforesaid  or  by  and  from  said  police  court. 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER.  45 


SEC.   74.     No  such  judge  or  assistant  judge  shall  be  disquali- 
fied  t<>  sit  in  any  qui  tarn  or  other  penal  action  or   prosecution  5^  I*™  "nai~ 
from  which  a  penalty  may  accrue  to  the  treasurer  of  said  city,  actions. 
by  reason  of  his  being  a  resident  in  said  city  and  liable  to  taxa- 
tion therein. 

SEC.  75.  Said  police  court  shall  have  authority,  subject  to  jurisdiction. 
the  provisions  of  this  act,  to  hear  and  determine  charges  for 
crimes  and  misdemeanors  committed  within  the  limits  of  the 
town  and  city  of  New  Britain,  and  in  that  part  of  the  town 
of  Southington,  in  the  county  of  Hartford,  covered  by  the  ton.0" 
water-works  of  said  city  and  by  the  waters  of  the  Shuttle 
Meadow  Lake,  so  called,  and  within  one  hundred  rods  measur- 
ing landward,  from  the  high  water  line  of  said  lake  along  the 
entire  border  thereof,  the  punishment  of  which,  as  prescribed  by 
law,  does  not  exceed  a  fine  of  two  hundred  dollars,  or  six 
months'  imprisonment  in  a  county  jail,  county  or  town  work- 
house, or  such  fine  and  imprisonment  both.  And  in  all  such  cases 
said  court  may  proceed  to  trial,  render  judgment  thereon,  and 
grant  a  warrant  for  the  execution  thereof  according  to  law  ;  but 
in  all  cases  the  the  person  convicted  may  appeal  from  the  judg- 
ment  of  said  police  court  to  the  superior  court  next  to  be  holden 
in  the  county  of  Hartford  for  the  trial  of  criminal  cases,  except 
when  the  conviction  shall  be  for  the  crime  of  drunkenness,  pro- 
fane swearing,  and  Sabbath-breaking  ;  provided,  he  gives  bonds,  Bonds. 
with  good  and  sufficient  surety,  on  the  appeal,  as  said  police 
court  shall  order,  payable  to  the  treasurer  of  the  State  of  Con- 
necticut, or  the  treasurer  of  the  county  of  Hartford,  as  the  law 
in  each  case  may  require,  conditioned  for  the  appearance  of  the 
person  so  convicted  before  said  superior  court  to  answer  con- 
cerning the  offense  whereof  he  stands  charged,  and  to  abide  the  When 

Prisoners 

judgment  that  may  be  rendered  by  the  said  superior  court.     If  may  be 

bound  over. 
the  crime  charged  against  the  accused  shall  in  any  case  be  of  so 

aggravated  a  nature  as  to  require  a  greater  punishment  than  is 
above  specified,  the  accused  shall  be  by  said  police  court  bound 
over  to  the  next  superior  court  having  cognizance  of  the  offense, 
in  the  manner  provided  by  law  in  cases  of  binding  over,  by  jus- 
tices of  the  peace,  and  in  all  cases  not  bailable  said  court  shall 
proceed  in  the  same  manner  as  now  provided  by  law  in  like 
cases. 

SEC.  76.  The  clerk  of  the  city  court  for  said  city  shall  be  police  court 
the  clerk  of  said  police  court  ;  said  clerk  shall  keep  a  record  of  proceedings. 
its  proceedings,  which  shall  be  open  during  business  hours  for 


46 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER. 


Shall  receive 
moneys  due 
and  account 
with  treas- 
urer. 


Salary  of 
clerk. 


Bond  of 
clerk. 


Council  to 
provide  court 
room  and  ac- 
commo- 
dations. 


Court  to  open 
at  eight  - 
thirty. 


Complaints, 
how  made. 


Process. 


public  inspection,  and  shall  receive  all  fines,  penalties,  and 
costs,  and  moneys  founded  on  or  received  by  reason  of  all  and 
any  convictions  or  judgments  had  and  rendered  by  said  police 
court  and  belonging  to  said  city,  and  shall  account  for  the  same 
to  and  with  the  treasurer  of  said  city  in  writing,  under  oath,  on 
the  first  Monday  of  April  and  on  the  first  Monday  of  October, 
or  within  ten  days  thereafter  in  each  year,  and  as  often  as  the 
common  council  of  said  city  shall  order,  and  shall  pay  the  same 
into  the  treasury  within  thirty  days  of  the  time  of  accounting 
with  the  treasurer  as  aforesaid  ;  said  treasurer  shall  lodge  said 
account  on  file  and  keep  the*  same  for  the  use  of  said  city.  The 
salary  of  said  clerk  and  the  time  and  manner  of  paying  the 
same  shall  be  fixed  by  the  common  council  of  said  city,  and 
such  salary  shall  be  in  lieu  of  all  fees  whatsoever  for  criminal 
business.  Said  clerk  shall,  before  entering  up  the  duties  of  his 
office,  execute  a  bond  as  hereinbefore  prescribed,  conditioned 
that  he  shall  faithfully  render  an  account  in  writing,  under  oath, 
to  the  treasurer  of  said  city  and  pay  over  all  fines,  penalties, 
fees,  and  costs  belonging  to  said  city  that  shall  come  into  his 
hands,  into  the  treasury  of  the  city,  as  is  hereinbefore  provided. 

SEC.  77.  The  common  council  of  said  city  shall  provide  a 
court  room  and  such  other  accommodation  for  said  police  court 
as  said  judge  shall  deem  necessary,  including  record  books, 
blanks,  stationery,  and  so  forth ;  and  said  court  shall  be  open 
for  the  transaction  of  business  every  day  except  Sunday,  at 
eight-thirty  o'clock  in  the  forenoon,  and  for  so  long  a  time'  as 
shall  be  necessary  to  transact  all  necessary  business  before  said 
court  during  said  day. 

SEC'  78.  Presentments  or  complaints  in  any  criminal  matter 
cognizable  by  said  police  court  may  be  made  to  the  same  by  the 
prosecuting  attorney  or  the  assistant  attorney  for  the  city  of 
New  Britain  and  the  powers  of  grand  jurors  of  the  town  of  New 
Britain  with  regard  to  presentments  to  said  police  court  shall 
cease  and  determine  upon  the  passage  of  this  act ;  and  said 
police  court,  and  the  clerk  thereof,  shall  exercise  the  same 
powers  in  relation  to  the  issuing  of  process  against  persons  so 
complained  of,  and  the  granting  of  summons  or  capias  for  wit- 
nesses, as  are  conferred  by  law  upon  justices  of  the  peace  in 
such  cases. 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER.  47 


SEC.  79.  Before  entering  upon  the  trial  of  any  criminal  ^J 
cause,  the  said  police  court  may  adjourn  hearing  on  trial  thereof  police  court. 
from  time  to  time  not  exceeding  fifteen  days,  unless  said  court, 
npon  good  cause  shown,  may  deem  a  longer  time  necessary  for 
the  purpose  of  procuring  material  testimony,  which  time  shall 
not  exceed  ninety  days  ;  and  said  court,  if  the  offense  charged 
be  bailable,  shall  take  good  and  sufficient  bail,  if  offered,  for  Bail  bond. 
the  appearance  of  the  p.-rson  charged,  at  the  day  to  which  the 
trial  or  hearing  is  adjourned.  If  the  case  is  within  the  final 
jurisdiction  of  said  police  court,  the  bond  or  recognizance  shall 
be  payable  to  the  city  treasurer,  otherwise  to  the  county  or  state 
treasurer  as  the  nature  of  the  offense  shall  require. 

SEC.  80.  Said  police  court  is  hereby  required  to  charge  and  fees.Ce 
tax  for  the  use  of  the  city  of  New  Britain,  in  any  criminal  pro- 
ceeding, such  clerk  fees  as  are  now  allowed  by  law  to  the  clerks 
of  the  superior  court  in  like  proceedings,  and  two  dollars  for  the 
trial  of  each  case  and  one  dollar  on  each  appeal,  and  the  fees  of 
the  prosecuting  officer  who  shall  make  any  complaint  or  pre- 
sentment shall  be  the  same  as  those  now  provided  by  law  for 
grand  jurors  of  towns,  and  payable  from  the  city  treasury.  All 
such  fees  of  the  prosecuting  officer  who  shall  make  complaint 
shall  be  taxed  and  received  by  the  clerk  in  favor  of  the  city  of 
New  Britain  ;  said  clerk  ma}*  pa}r  unto  persons  entitled  to  costs  Cost  to  be 
in  any  criminal  prosecution  such  costs  as  have  of  right  accrued  limitation  of' 
to  them,  taking  their  receipt  therefor,  but  shall  not  pay  costs 
to  any  person  who  shall  not  demand  the  same  within  six  months 
after  the  same  are  taxed  ;  provided,  that  no  part  of  said  costs 
shall  be  received  by  or  paid  to  any  salaried  officer  of  said  city, 
for  any  service  whatever,  as  witness  or  otherwise  ;  and  said 
clerk  may  draw  orders  on  the  cit}r  treasurer  for  such  sums  as 
are  necessary  for  the  purpose  hereinbefore  indicated,  or  may 

pay  the  same  out  of  the  funds  of  the  city  in  his  hands. 

„,.  Fines  and 

^EC.  ol.      Ihe  said  clerk  shall  receive  all  fines  and  costs  im-  costs  by 

posed  by  said  police  court,   and  paid  before  commitment,  and  ceived  before 
account  for  the  same  to  the  city  treasurer  as  hereinbefore  pro-  commit? 
vided  ;  and  all  fines  and  costs  paid  after  commitment  shall  be"1 
received  by  the  keeper  of  the  jail  or  of  the   work-house  where 
the  offender  shall  be  confined,  and  by  such  keeper  paid  to  the 
treasurer  of  the  city  of  New  Britain  within  thirty  days  after  the 
same  shall  have  been  received  by  said  keeper  of  said  jail  or 
work-house. 


48 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER. 


Forfeited 
bonds,  duty 
of  corpora- 
tion counsel 
and  clerk  of 
police  court 
in  regard  to. 


Confinement 
of  criminals. 


Juvenile  of- 
fenders, com 
mitment  of. 


Police  court 
process,  by 
whom 

served. 


SEC.  82.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  corporation  counsel  of 
said  city  to  prosecute,  in  the  name  of  the  city  treasurer,  any  of 
the  bonds  mentioned  in  this  act,  which  are  payable  to  such 
treasurer  within  fifteen  days  after  the  same  shall  be  forfeited, 
and  account  to  and  with  the  city  treasurer  for  all  sums  received 
and  recovered  on  such  bonds  except  his  taxable  fees  ;  and  it  is 
hereby  made  the  duty  of  the  clerk  of  said  police  court  to  give 
immediate  information  to  the  corporation  counsel  of  the  forfeit- 
ure of  all  bonds  taken  to  the  treasurer  of  said  city,  in  pursuance 
of  this  act. 

SEC.  83.  The  common  council  of  the  said  city  of  New  Brit- 
ain may  enter  into  any  arrangement  with  the  county  commis- 
sioners of  Hartford  county,  or  with  the  inspectors  of  any  work- 
house within  said  county,  to  receive  and  keep  all  persons  who 
may  be  sentenced  to  confinement  in  the  common  jail  of  said 
count}7,  or  in  such  work-house  by  said  police  court ;  and  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  sheriff  of  Hartford  county,  his  deputy,  the 
sheriff  of  said  city  of  New  Britain,  and  of  any  constable  of  the 
town  of  New  Britain,  or  either  of  the  special  constables  or  police- 
men of  said  city  of  New  Britain,  to  convej7  all  persons  so  sent- 
enced, without  delay,  to  the  appointed  place  of  confinement  and 
deliver  them  to  the  keeper  thereof,  who  shall  receive  and  imprison 
such  persons  and  employ  them  according  to  the  rules,  regula- 
tions, and  discipline  of  such  place  of  confinement,  during  the 
term  for  which  they  shall  be  severally  sentenced  and  committed, 
or  until  they  are  discharged  by  law ;  but  the  said  common 
council  shall  not  have  power  to  enter  into  any  such  agreement, 
at  any  one  time,  for  a  longer  period  than  two  years. 

SEC.  84.  It  shall  be  lawful  for  said  police  court,  at  its  dis- 
cretion, and  in  the  manner  provided  by  the  laws  of  this  state, 
to  order  any  person  brought  before  said  court  on  any  criminal 
presentment  to  be  committed  to  any  reform  school  or  other  in- 
stitution now  or  hereafter  established  within  this  state  for 
juvenile  offenders,  and  the  proper  officer  of  such  institution 
shall  receive  and  keep  such  person  according  to  the  rules  and 
discipline  of  the  same. 

SEC.  85.  Process  issued  by  or  returnable  to  said  police  court 
may  be  served  by  the  sheriff  of  Hartford  county,  or  his  deputies, 
or  any  constable  of  the  town  of  New  Britain,  or  the  sheriff,  or 
any  policeman,  or  special  constable  of  the  city  of  New  Britain, 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER.  49 

or  any  indifferent  person  deputed  to  serve  the  same,  who  shall 
by  several  receive  the  fees  therefor  now  prescribed  by  law  for 
constables  of  towns  for  like  service  and  no  more  ;  provided,  no  salaried  city 
fee  shall  be  paid  to  any  salaried  officer  of  said  city  for  such  ser-  receive  no 
vice,  but  the  legal  fees  therefor  shall  be  taxed  and  paid  to  the  tngSprocess. 
clerk,  for  the  city    treasury,   upon   conviction   of  any  person 
arrested  ;  and  provided  further,  that  the  authority  of  the  sheriff, 
or  any  special  constable  or  policeman  of  said  city,  shall  not  ex- 
tend beyond  the  limits  of  the  town  of  New  Britain,  except  as 
hereinbefore  or  hereinafter  provided. 

SEC.  86.  It  shall  be  lawful  for  all  officers  hereby  authorized  £$*SJSS£ 
to  serve  process  issued  by  and  returnable  to  the  police  court,  JJ^e.to  be 
and  it  shall  be  their  duty  to  arrest  without  previous  complaint 
and  warrant  all  such  persons  as  are  guilty  of  drunkenness, 
vagrancy,  disorderly  conduct,  breaches  of  the  peace  and  com- 
mon assault,  when  such  offenses  shall  be  committed  within  the 
limits  of  the  jurisdiction  of  said  court,  and  such  offenders  shall 
be  taken  and  apprehended  in  the  act  or  on  the  present  informa- 
tion of  others  ;  and  it  shall  be  lawful  for  said  court  to  proceed  to 
trial  and  render  judgment  without  previous  complaint  and  war- 
rant, upon  persons  so  arrested,  in  the  same  manner  as  if  they 
had  been  arrested  upon  process  issued  by  said  court. 

SEC.  87.     The  officers  of  the  town   and  of  the  city  of  New  officers  in  the 
Britain  and  members  of  the  police  department  of  said  city,  shall  southington. 
have  the  same  authority  and  power  to  arrest  any  person  or  per- 
sons within  that  part  of  the  town   of  Southington   described  in 
section  seventy-five  of  this  act  as  they  now  have  to  make  arrests 
within  the  limits  of  the  town  and  city  of  New  Britain,   and   all 
persons  so  arrested  by  them  shall  be   brought  forthwith  before 
the  police  court  of  said  city,  which  court  shall  thereupon  proceed 
to  trial  and  judgment  as  in  all  other  similar  cases  now  within 
its  jurisdiction. 

SEC.  88.     Nothing  in  this  act  contained  shall  affect  the  juris-  J" {gj^1™. 
diction  of  grand  jurors,  or  other  informing  officers  of  the  town  ton  author- 

Ites  not  af- 

of  Southington,    or  of  justices  of  the  peace  of  said  town,  over  fee  ted. 
crimes,  offenses,  and  misdemeanors  committed  in  any  part  of 
said  town  of  Southington. 

SEC.  89.     Whenever  any  person  shall  be  arraigned  before  said  ^y^u'speiKi 
police  court  for  drunkenness,  vagrancy,  disorderly  conduct,  or  a  Judgment 
breach  of  the  peace,  said  court  may  indefinitely  suspend  judg- 

7 


50 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER. 


Reduction  or 
disallowance 
of  fees. 


Sureties  of 
the  peace. 


ment  concerning  him,  whenever  such  forbearance  shall  seem  to 
the  court  required,  either  by  reason  of  the  age  of  the  accused  or 
the  circumstances  under  which  the  offense  was  committed. 

SEC.  90.  Said  police  court  may  reduce  or  disallow  fees  tax- 
able by  said  court,  in  cases  where  the  negligence  of  any  minis- 
terial or  informing  officer,  or  the  discharge  of  the  accused  for 
want  of  evidence,  or  the  insufficiency  of  the  service  rendered,  or 
other  circumstances,  shall  render  such  reduction  or  disallowance 
expedient  in  the  view  of  said  court,  in  the  exercise  of  its  sound 
discretion. 

SEC.  91.  Sureties  of  the  peace  and  for  good  behavior  may  be 
required  by  said  police  court  in  such  cases  and  in  such  manner 
as  justices  of  the  peace  are  now  authorized  by  law  to  require  the 
same ;  provided,  the  cause  or  occasion  of  requiring  the  same 
shall  arise  within  the  limits  of  the  town  of  New  Britain. 

Fines,  penal-      SEC.  92.     All  fines,  penalties,  and  forfeitures  incurred  by  a 

ties,  and  for-  . 

feitures.  how  violation  of  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  act,  or  any  order  or  or- 

recovered. 

dmance  of  the  common  council  of  said  city,  shall  be  for  the   use 

of  said  city,  and  may  be  recovered  by  an  action  of  debt,  or  other 

proper  action  in  the  name  of  the  city,  brought  to  said  city  court, 

One  act  shall  or  by  information  of  the  prosecuting  attorney  made  to  eaid  police 

not  authorize  .     .      ,,  .„    ,  .     ,,  ,,  .    ,         ,  , 

a  civil  and  court,  in  the  cases  specified  in  the  twenty-third  and  twenty-fourth 
prosecution,  sections  of  this  act,  to  be  proceeded  with  in  all  respects  as  other 
actions  brought  to  said  city  court,  or  other  informations  brought 
to  said  police  court ;  provided,  that  no  person  shall  be  prosecuted 
both  civilly  and  criminally  for  the  same  act  of  breaking  any  order 
or  ordinance. 

SEC.  93.  All  the  powers  relating  to  the  water  supply  of  said 
cUy  now  vested  in  the  common  council  thereof,  and  all  duties  im- 
posed and  powers  conferred  upon  the  water  commissioners  of 
said  city  are  hereby  continued  in  the  common  council  of  said  city 
and  the  water  commissioners  thereof  respectively,  and  the 
present  water  commissioners  of  said  city  shall  hold  their  offices 
until  the  third  Wednesday  of  April,  1896  ;  said  board  of  water 
commissioners  shall  consist  of  three  electors  of  said  city,  who 
shall  be  chosen  in  the  manner  and  for  the  terms  in  this  act 
provided.  Said  common  council  shall  annually,  on  or  after  the 
third  Wednesday  of  April,  1897,  choose  by  ballot  one  resi- 
dent of  said  city  to  serve  as  water  commissioner  for  the  term  of 
three  years,  and  until  another  is  chosen  in  his  place  ;  the  person 


Water 
supply. 


Water  com- 
missioners, 
how  chosen. 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER.  51 

receiving  a  majority  of  the  votes  to  be  declared  elected.     Said 
common  council  shall,  in  the  same   manner,    fill  any   vacancies  b 
which  may  occur  in  said  board. 

SEC.  94.     The  bonds  commonly    known    as    "-water   bonds" 
heretofore  issued  by  the  borough  and  city  of  New  Britain,  under  liatn  in  full 
the  various  acts  authorizing  the  same,  together  with  all  other force- 
obligations  of  said  borough  and  city  and  the  inhabitants  thereof, 
are  hereby  expressly  declared  to  be  in  full  force  and  effect,  and 
shall  be  obligatory  upon  said  city  and  the  inhabitants  thereof  to 
the  same  extent  that  they  have  been  heretofore  obligatory  upon 
said  borough  and  city  and  the  inhabitants  thereof. 

SEC  95.  The  board  of  sewer  commissioners  shall  consist  of 
three  electors  of  said  city,  who  shall  not  be  members  of  the  board  how  chosen- 
of  street  commissioners.  The  common  council  shall,  during  the 
month  of  April,  on  or  after  the  third  Wednesday  in  said  month  in 
each  year,  appoint  one  member  of  said  board,  who  shall  hold 
office  for  the  term  of  three  years  from  the  third  Wednesday  of 
April  of  the  year  in  which  he  is  so  appointed,  and  until  his  suc- 
cessor shall  be  appointed  and  qualified.  Whenever  a  vacancy  howfliied!' 
shall  occur  in  said  board  it  shall  be  filled  in  a  manner  provided 
in  this  section  for  the  appointment  of  members,  and  said  com- 
mon council  may  remove  any  member  of  said  board  for  cause. 

SEC.  96.  Said  board  of  sewer  commissioners  shall  be  the 
trustees  of  the  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt  issued  by  said 
city  for  sewer  purposes,  and  shall  keep  a  record  of  all  suchofdebt 
notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  issued,  disposed  of,  or  pledged,  and 
all  moneys  received  by  said  board  shall  be  by  it  paid  over  to  the 
treasurer  of  said  city. 

SEC.  97.     Said  board  of  sewer  commissioners  is  authorized 
and  empowered  to  attend  to  the  construction,  supervision,  care,  §uttesSofnd 
and  management  of  the  sewers  and  drains  of  said  city,  and  have 
supervision  over  the  construction  of  such    portions  of  private 
drains  or  sewers  as  are  within  the  limits  of   any    public  street, 
and  to  exercise  any  additional  powers  conferred  upon  it  by  said 
common  council,  and  it  shall  keep  a  record  of  its  official   pro- 
ceedings, and  shall  render  a  report  of  its  doings  to  said   com- To  make  re- 
mon  council  annually,  and  oftener  when  by  said  common  council  annually, 
requested,  including  a  general  exhibit  of  the  state  of  its  works, 
an  account  of  sums  requried  to  be  expended  therefor,  and  such 
other  matters  of  information  as  may  be  called  for  by  said  com- 


52 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER. 


council. 

Police  com- 
missioners, 
how  chosen. 


Police  com- 
misioners. 
powers  and 
duties. 


officers. 


mon  council ;  provided,  that  said  board  shall  always  be  under 
the  direction  of  the  common  council  of  said  city. 

SEC.  98.  The  board  of  police  commissioners  shall  consist  of 
three  electors  of  said  city.  The  common  council  shall,  during 
the  month  of  April,  on  or  after  the  third  Wednesday  of  said 
month  in  each  year,  appoint  one  member  of  said  board,  who 
shall  hold  office  for  the  term  of  three  years  from  the  third  Wed- 
nesday of  April  of  the  year  in  which  he  is  so  appointed,  and 
until  his  successor  shall  be  appointed  and  qualified. 

SEC.  99.  Said  commissioners  shall  have  the  general  manage- 
ment of  the  police  department  of  said  city,  and  make  all  needful 
rules  and  regulations  for  the  government  thereof,  not  confiicting 
with  the  laws  of  this  state.  They  shall  have  the  sole  power  of 
appointment  and  removal  of  officers  and  members  of  the  police 
department  of  said  city,  and  shall  appoint  their  clerk.  It  shall 
be  the  duty  of  said  board  of  police  commissioners  to  appoint 
suitable  persons  to  fill  the  offices  of  said  police  department,  and 
other  suitable  persons  as  members  of  said  police  department, 
May  suspend,  an^  t,o  suspend,  remove,  or  expel  anv  officer  or  member  from 

re  move  or 

officj  or  membership  in  said  department  whenever,  in  the  judg- 
ment of  said  commissioners,  such  suspension,  removal,  or  ex- 
pulsion shall  be  for  the  best  interest  of  the  city,  provided  that 
no  officer  or  member  of  said  department  shall  be  removed  or 
expelled  without  having  an  opportunity  to  be  heard  as  to  the 
reason  therefor  before  said  board  ;  and  whenever  any  officer  or 
member  of  said  police  department  shall  be  removed  or  expelled 
from  office  or  membership,  and  suid  commissioners  shall  appoint 
any  person  to  fill  the  vacancy  thus  caused,  or  shall  fill  any 
vacancy  that  may  at  &ny  time  occur  in  said  department,  from 
'"between  anv  cause,  such  appointment  shall  be  made  in  such  a  manner  as 
to  divide  the  membership  of  said  department,  as  nearly  as  may 
be,  equally  between  the  two  leading  political  parties  for  the 
time  being ;  whenever  any  person  shall  be  suspended,  removed, 
or  expelled  from  his  office  or  membership  in  said  department,  or 
whenever  any  person  shall  be  appointed  an  officer  or  member  of 
said  police  department,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  board  of 
police  commissioners  to  give  a  written  notice  within  a  reason- 
able time  to  the  city  clerk  of  said  city  of  New  Britain  of  such 
Control  and  appointment,  removal,  or  expulsion,  and  said  board  shall  con- 
ment.ge"  trol  and  manage  said  department  in  such  manner  as  it  may 


exnel  police 
officers. 


Headings. 


Appoint- 
ments to  be 
made  so  as 
to  divide 


be 
cit^ecierkhe 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER.  53 

deem  best  calculated  to  serve  the  interest?  of  said  ciiy.  The 
present  officers  and  members  of  the  police  department  of  said 
city,  and  the  officers  and  members  of  said  department  hereafter 
appointed,  shall  hold  their  respective  offices  and  membership  in 
said  department  until  removed  or  expelled  by  said  board  of 
police  commissioners  for  cause,  of  which  said  board  shall  be  the 
sole  judge. 

SEC.  100.     The  mayor  of  said  city  of  New  Britain,  the  clerk  police  com- 

t.  A,  ,.  .      .  .  missioners, 

or  the  board  or  police  commissioners,  or  any  justice  ot  the  peace  compulsory 

j    attendance 

may  sign  and  issue  process  of  subpo3na  to  compel  the  attend-  Of  witnesses 
ance  of  witnesses  before  the  board  of  police  commissioners  of 
said  city  at  an}*  lawful  meeting  of  said  board. 

SEC.  101.     Such  process  of  subpoena  may  be  served  in  the  subpoena*, 
same  manner  as  now  by  law  provided  as  to  witnesses  in  civil  how  served- 
causes,  except  that  no  fees  shall  be  tendered  to  any  witnesses  at 
the  time  of  said  service.     Any  person  upon  whom  such  process 
has  been  legally  served  shall  appear  before  said  board  in  obedi- 
ence to  such   process   and   testify  as  to  any  matters  lawfully 
pending  before  said  board. 

Attendance 

SEC.  102.     If  any  person  upon  whom  such  subpoena  has  been  of  witnesses, 
duly  served  shall  refuse  to  attend  before  said  board,  the  clerk  peiied. 
of  the  board  of  police  commissioners,  b}-  direction  of  said  board, 
may  issue  a  capias  directed  to  some  proper  officer  to  arrest  such 
witness  and  bring  him  before  said  board  to  testify,  and  in  case 
such  person  shall  refuse  to  testify,  said  board  shall  have  power 
to  adjudge  such  person   to   be   in  contempt  and  may  issue  a 
mittimus  signed  by  its  clerk  and  commit  such  person  to  jail  for  a 

period  of  not  more  than  thirty  days. 

J        J  Fees  of 

SEC.  103.     The  same  fees  as  provided  by  law  for  witnesses  in  witnesses. 

civil  causes  shall  be  paid  out  of  the  city  treasury  to  any  witness 
except  policemen  who  shall  attend  and  testify  under  the  provis- 
ions of  sections  one  hundred  and  one  hundred  and  one  ;  the 
amount  of  such  fees  to  be  certified  by  the  clerk  of  said  board  to 
the  proper  auditing  officer  of  said  city. 

rnu  -1  c        4.1  *-  1     Council  to  fix 

SEC.  104.     The  common  council  may  fix  the  amount  of  sal- salaries  of 
aries  of  members  of  the  police  force,   may  call  out  the  super- me^f;  may 
numerary  police  when  it  shall   deem  it   necessary,   and   may  supe"" 
authorize  the  mayor  or  captain  of  police  to  do  the  same  ;  may  n' 
fix  the  amount  of  their  compensation  while  on  duty,  and  do  any 
other  lawful  act  to  render  the  police  force  most  efficient.     Said 


54 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER. 


Fire  com- 
missioners. 

how  chosen.   three  eiectOrs  of  said  city. 


police  and  supernumeraries,  when  on  duty,  shall  have  the  same 
power,  within  said  city,  to  pursue  and  secure  offenders  as  con- 
stables have  in  their  respective  towns. 

SEC.  105.     The  board  of  fire  commissioners  shall   consist  of 
The  common  council  shall,   during 

the  month  of  April,  on  or  after  the  third  Wednesday  of  said 
month  in  each  year,  appoint  one  member  of  said  board  who  shall 
hold  office  for  the  term  of  three  years  from  the  third  Wednesday 
of  April  of  the  year  in  which  he  is  so  appointed,  and  until  his 
successors  shall  be  appointed  and  qualified. 

Whenever  a  vacancy  shall  occur  in  said  board,  it  shall  be  filled 
in  the  manner  provided  in  this  section  for  the  appointment   of 
Council  may  members,  and  said  common  council  may  remove  any   members 

remove 

of  said  board  for  cause. 

SEC.  106.  Said  commissioners  shall  have  the  general  manage- 
ment of  the  fire  department  of  said  city,  and  make  all  needful 
rules  and  regulations  for  the  government  thereof,  not  conflicting 
with  the  laws  of  this  state.  They  shall  have  the  sole  power  of 
appointment  and  removal  of  officers  and  members  of  the  fire  de- 
partment of  said  city,  and  shall  appoint  their  clerk.  It  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  said  board  of  fire  commissioners  to  appoint  suit- 
able persons  to  fill  the  offices  of  said  fire  department,  and  other 
stitable  persons  as  members  of  said  fire  department,  and  to  sus- 
pend, remove,  or  expel  any  officer  or  member  from  office  or 
membership  in  said  department  whenever,  in  the  judgment  of 
said  commissioners,  such  suspension,  removal,  or  expulsion 
shall  be  for  the  best  interests  of  the  city.  Said  commissiomers 
shall  be  responsible  for  the  discipline,  good  order,  and  proper 
conduct  of  the  whole  fire  department,  both  officers  and  men, 
and  for  the  care  of  the  horses,  engines,  hose-reels,  fire-alarm 
telegraph,  and  all  furniture  and  apparatus  thereto  belonging, 
and  have  the  superintendence  and  control  of  all  the  engine 
and  other  houses  used  for  the  purposes  of  the  fire  department, 
and  all  the  furniture  and  apparatus  thereto  belonging.  Said 
board. shall  control  and  manage  said  department  in  such  man- 
ner as  it  may  deem  best  calculated  to  serve  the  interests  of  said 
Whenever  any  person  shall  be  suspended,  removed,  or 
from  his  office  or  membership  in  said  department,  or 
whenever  any  person  shall  be  appointed  an  officer  or  member  of 
said  fire  department,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  board  of  fire 


Vacancies, 
how  filled. 


members. 
Fire  Com- 
missioners. 


Shall  ap- 
point and  re- 
move fire- 
men and 
their  clerk. 


May  sus- 
pend, re- 
move, or 
expel  fire- 
men. 


Responsible 
for  discipline 
and  care  of 
apparatus. 


Control  and 
manage- 
ment. 


Notice  of  ap- 
pointments 
and  removals 
to  be  given 
city  clerk. 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER.  55 

commissioners  to  give  a  written  notice  within  a  reasonable  time 
to  the  city  clerk  of  said  city  of  New  Britain  of  such  appoint- 
ment, removal,  or  expulsion. 

SEC.   107.     The   present   officers    and   members    of  the   fire  mmnbers  to 
department  of  said  city  of  New  Britain,  and  the  officers  and  be  retained- 
members  of   said   department  hereafter  appointed,    shall  hold 
their  respective  offices  and  membership  in  said  department  until 
removed  or  expelled  by  said  board  of   fire  commissioners  for 
cause,  of  which  said  board  of  fire  commissioners  shall  be  the 
sole  judges. 

SEC.  108.     No  pa}*  shall  be  allowed  to  members  of  the  board  flre  commis- 
of  police  commissioners  or  to  members  of  the  board  of  fire  com-  have  no  pay 

•      •  xi         L    •  f  iL     i.          i     j-  ^  •      except  chair- 

missioners,  excepting  the  chairman  of  the  board  of  fire  com  mis-  man  of  flre 

»  3         3     u       *u  i  commisslon- 

sioners,    for   any    services   rendered    by   them,    but  the  actual  ers. 


expenses  and  disbursements  of  either  of  said  boards  incurred  i 

the  performance  of  its  duties  shall  be  paid  from  the  city  treas-  pald»  how- 

ury  when  allowed  by  the  common  council,  and  no  such  expenses 

and  disbursements  shall  be  paid  unless  the  same  shall  have  been 

presented  to  the  common  council. 

SEC.  109.     Said  boards  of  police  and  fire  commissioners  shall 
have  full  power  and  authority,  each  in  its  respective  depart- 
ment,  to  purchase  for  said  departments  all  necessary  supplies  to  Purchase- 
of  every  name  and  nature,  and  to  provide  all  necessary  repairs 
and  alterations  in  the  apparatus,  furniture,  and  property  of  said 
departments,  and  also  to  sell  or  exchange  any  of  the  property  T°  sel1  or  e.x" 
used  in  said  departments  when  they  shall  deem  it  best  so  to  do,  wlth  con- 

•  sent  of 

having  first  obtained  the  consent  of  the  common  council.     Fail  council. 
ure  to  secure  the  consent  of  the  common  council  before  making 

O 

such  sale  or  exchange  shall  be  cause  for  removal.     The  total 
amount  expended  in  any  one  year  by  each  of  said  boards  asltm'es- 
aforesaid  shall  not  exceed  the  total  sum  appropriated  in  said 
year  for  their  respective  departments,  and  the  members  of  the 

boards  shall  be  held  personally  liable  for  any  excess  of  expendi-  commission- 

••  ers  person- 

tures,  and  whenever  any  bill  is  contracted  as  aforesaid  the  city  lllly  liable. 

auditor  shall  draw  his  order  on  the  city  treasurer  in  favor  of  the 
persons  entitled    thereto  ;    provided,  said  oill  shall  have  been  ™u*,  now 
first  approved  by  a  majority  of  the  members  of  the  board  of  the 
department  to  which  said  bill  shall  belong. 

SEC.  110.     The   members  of  each  of  said  boards  shall  be  Jolice  Rlld 

flre  commis- 

sworn  by  the  clerk  of  said  city  to  a  faithful  and  impartial  dis-  sioners,  qual- 

ification of. 
charge  of  their  duties,  and  a  certificate  of  their  appointment 


56 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER. 


Present 
members, 
term  of  of- 
fice. 


Council  to 
appoint 
water,  sewer, 
police  and 
fire  commis- 
sioners. 


Terms  of 
office. 


Vacancies, 
how  filled. 


Removals 
for  cause. 


Minority 
representa- 
tion. 


and  the  administration  of  such  oath  shall  be  made  and  recorded 
in  the  records  of  the  city. 

SEC.  111.  The  present  members  of  all  the  boards  provided 
for  in  this  act  shall  hold  office  until  the  third  Wednesday  of 
April,  1896,  when  their  terms  of  office  shall,  by  virtue  of  the 
provisions  of  the  act,  expire. 

SEC.  112.  On  or  after  said  third  Wednesday  of  April,  1896, 
and  during  said  month  the  common  council  shall  appoint,  in  the 
manner  provided  by  law,  three  members  of  each  of  the  boards 
of  water  commissioners,  sewer  commissioners,  police  commis- 
sioners, and  fire  commissioners,  who  shall  hold  their  offices  re- 
spectively, one  for  one  }"ear,  one  for  two  years,  and  one  for 
three  years,  and  after  said  appointment  shall  have  been  made  all 
furture  appointments  shall  be  made  for  terms  in  conformity  to 
the  provision  of  this  act ;  whenever  a  vacancy  shall  occur  in  any 
of  said  boards,  it  shall  be  filled  in  the  manner  provided  in  this 
section  for  the  appointment  of  members,  and  said  common 
council  may  remove  any  member  of  either  of  said  boards  for 
cause.  The  appointment  of  the  members  of  each  of  the  boards 
referred  to  in  this  section  shall  be  made  in  such  manner  that  no 
more  than  two  of  the  members  of  said  boards  shall  belong  to  the 
same  political  party. 

council  to  fix      SEC  .  113.     Nothing  in  this  act  shall  be  so  construed  as  to  affect 
salaries. 

the  right  of  the  common  council  to  fix  the  salaries  and  compen- 
sation of  the  various  officers  and  members  of  the  fire  and  police 
departments. 

SEC.  114.  Forms  substantially  like  the  following  may  be 
used  in  reference  to  the  matters  indicated  in  their  titles,  and 
shall  be  sufficient ;  but  nothing  in  this  section  shall  be  construed 
as  prohibiting  the  use  of  other  forms  in  reference  to  the  same 
matters,  or  as  invalidating  any  other  forms  : 
I.  Form  of  Ordinance. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  common  council  of   the  city  of  New 
Britain,  section  one,  and  so  forth. 

II.     Form  of  order  under  section  36. 

Ordered,  That  (a  or  the)  sidewalk  (or  gutter)  on  the 
side  of  street,  from          to  be  by  the  (proprietor 

or  proprietors)  of  the  lands  fronting  on  said  street,  on  that  side 
thereof  and  between  said  points,  to  the  acceptance  of  the  street 
commissioner,  before  the  day  of  ,  A.  D.  18 


Forms. 


Form  of  or- 
dinance. 


Form  of 
order  for  a 
walk  or 
gutter. 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER.  57 

III.  Form  of  certificate  of  lien  under  section  53. 

This  certificate  witnesseth,  that  the  city  of  New  Britain  has  a  ufi1cmt£f0fer' 
lien  on  certain  land  in  said  city  (and  the  buildings  thereon) , lien- 
owned  in  whole  or  in  part  by  A.  B.,  bounded  and  described  as 
follows,  to  wit :   (describe  the  premises)   and  that  the  amount 
claimed  as  a  lien  as  aforesaid  on  said  premises  is  dollars 

and          cents. 

In  witness  whereof  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  at  said  city, 
this         day  of  ,  A.  D.  18     . 

C.  D.,  Mayor  (or  City  Clerk)  of  city. 

IV.  Form  of  certificate  of  discharge  of  lien  under 

section  fifty-three. 

This  certificate  witnesseth,  that  the  lien  heretofore  claimed  Form  of  dis- 
charge of 
by  the  city  of  New  Britain  upon  the  premises  owned  m  whole  lien. 

or  in  part  by  A.  B.,  bounded  and  described  as  follows,  to  wit : 
(describe  the  premises)  has  ceased  to  exist. 

In  witness  whereof  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand,  at  said  city, 
this         day  of  ,.A.  D.  18     . 

C.  D.,  Mayor  (or  City  Clerk)  of  city. 
V.     Form  of  an  order  of  apportionment  under  section 
thirty-nine. 

Whereas,  by  an  order  of  this  common  council,  it  has  been  Form  of  ap- 
portionment 
made  the  duty  of  the  proprietor  of  a  certain  piece  of  land,  order. 

to  wit :   (describe  it)  to  (sidewalk  or  gutters)  in  front  of 

said  land ;  and  whereas,  the  said  land  is  held  by  different  per- 
sons, to  wit :  A.  B.,  C.  D.,  and  E.  F.,  in  such  a  manner  as  to 
authorize  this  common  council  to  apportion  among  said  persons, 
pursuant  to  section  thirty-seven  of  the  city  charter,  the  expenses 
of  executing  said  order  ;  and  whereas,  said  expense  is  estimated 
at  (or  ascertained  to  be)  dollars  and  cents.  Ordered, 

that  the  said  A.  B.  pay  (state  the  fractional  part)  of  said  ex- 
pense, and  said  C.  D.  (fractional  part)  of  said  expense  (and  so 
on). 

VI.     Form  of  complaint  for  violation  of  ordinance. 
To  the  honorable  city  police  court  for  the  city  of  New  Britain  Form  of 
comes  A.  B.,  prosecuting  attorney  of  said  city,  and  on  his  oathc° 
of  office  complaint  and  information  makes,  that  since  the  incor- 
poration of  said  ciiy,  to  wit:  on  the  day  of  ,  A.  D. 
18     ,  and  within  the  limits  of  said  city,          of  the  town  of 
in  the  county  of              with  force  and  arms  (set  forth  the  act 

8 


58  NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER. 

complained  of)  against  the  peace,  contrary  to  the  ordinance  (or 
order,  as  the  case  may  be)  of  said  city,  in  such  case  provided, 
and  contrary  to  the  statute  in  such  case  provided  ;  therefore  the 
said  prosecuting  attorney  prays  process,  and  that  the  said 
may  be  arrested,  held  to  answer  to  this  complaint,  and  be  there- 
in dealt  with  according  to  law. 

Dated  at  said  New  Britain,  this         da}-  of  ,  A.  D.  18 

A.  B.,  prosecuting  attorney. 
VII.     Form  of  action  to  recover  fine,  penalty,  etc. 

Form  of  ac-  TO  the  sheriff  of  the  citv  of  New  Britain  : 
tion  to  re- 
cover. By  authority  of  the  state  of  Connecticut,  you  are  hereby  com- 
manded to  summon  A.  B.,  of  ,  to  appear  before  the  city 
court  of  the  city  of  New  Britain,  within  the  county  of  Hartford, 
next  to  be  holden  at  the  city  court  room  in  said  city,  on  the  first 
Monday  of  ,  A.  D.  18  ,  then  and  there  to  answer  unto  the 
city  of  New  Britain,  in  a  plea  that  to  the  plaintiff  the  defendant 
render  the  sum  of  ,  which  to  the  plaintiff  the  defendant 
owes,  and  from  them  unjustly  detains  ;  whereupon  the  plaintiff 
declares  and  says  that,  heretofore,  to  wit:  on  the  day  of 
,  A.  D.  18  ,  the  said  A.  B.  (state  the  act  or  negligence 
which  subjects  the  defendant  to  the  fine,  penalty,  or  forfeiture 
to  be  collected).  All  of  which  was  contrary  to  the  ordinance  of 
said  city  entitled  (give  the  title  to  the  ordinance  imposing  the 
fine,  penalt}-,  or  forfeiture).  And  the  said  defendant  thereby 
became  and  still  is  liable  to  forfeit  and  pay  to  the  plaintiff,  for 
the  use  of  the  city  treasurer,  the  sum  of  ,  recoverable  in 
an  action  of  debt  on  said  ordinance.  Whereby  an  action  hath 
accrued  to  the  plaintiff  to  demand  and  recover  of  the  defendant 
the  sum  of  ,  which  to  the  plaintiff  the  defendant  hath 
never  paid,  though  often  requested  to  to  do.  All  of  which  is 
to  the  damage  of  the  plaintiff  in  the  sum  of  ,  and  therefore 
they  bring  their  suit.  Hereof  fail  not,  but  due  service  and  re- 
turn make.  C.  D.,  of  said  New  Britain,  is  recognized  in  the 
sum  of  dollars  to  prosecute,  etc. 

Dated  at  said  New  Britain,  this          da}-  of  ,  A.  D   18     . 

d  ^EC*  ^^'  ^rom  an(^  after  the  time  when  the  provisions  of 
this  act  go  into  effect,  all  other  existing  provisions  of  law 
enacted  by  any  public  or  private  act  for  the  special  purpose  of 
affecting  the  cit}-  of  New  Britain,  excepting  acts  public  and 
private,  relating  to  the  water  supply  of  said  city,  shall  be  inope- 


NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  CHARTER.  o9 

rative,  and  are  hereby  declared  to  be,  from  and  after  such  time, 
repealed  ;  but  said  repeal  shall  not  impair  or  affect  any  rights,  ^ft&^or  b 
privileges,  or  immunities  vested  in   the   present   city  of  New  illations  not 
Britain  or  in  any  person  or  bod}*  corporate,  or  any  pecuniary 
obligations  now  attaching  to  said  communit}- ;  and  all  matters, 
civil  or  criminal,  commenced  b}~  virtue  of  the  provisions  of  law 
so  repealed,  and  pending,  unfinished  when  said  repealing  pro- 
visions take  effect,    may  be  prosecuted  to  final  effect,    in  the 
same  manner  as  if  this  act  had  not  been  passed ;  no  offense  Repeal  not 

to  effect  any 

committed  and  no  penalty  or  forfeiture  incurred,  and  no  tax  clr  penalty  or 

tax  or  assess- 

assessment  paid  or  incurred,  under  any  of  the  provisions  of  law  ment  in- 
cured, 
herein  repealed,  or  under  any  by-law,  order,  or  ordinance  made 

under  any  of  said  provisions,  shall  be  in  anywise  affected  by 
said  repeal.  The  orders  and  ordinances  of  said  city  in  force 
when  this  act  takes  effect  shall  thereafter  continue  in  force, 
notwithstanding  any  provisions  of  this  act,  until  repealed  by  re 
the  common  council  of  said  city. 

SEC.  116.     This  act  shall  take  effect  from  its  passage. 

Approved,  June  6th,  1895. 


CHARTER 


OF   THE 


WATER-WORKS, 


ACCEPTED  JUNE  4,  1857. 


WITH    AMENDMENTS, 


AND 


ACTS  AUTHORIZING  THE  ISSUE  OF  WATER  BONDS 
AND  SEWER  BONDS. 


WATER-WORKS. 


AX  ACT  TO  SUPPLY  THE  BOROUGH  OF  NEW  BRITAIN  WITH 
WATER  FOR  PUBLIC  AND  PRIVATE  PURPOSES. 


SECTION 

1.    Borough   empowered     to     take 
water   for  water-works     from 
Shuttle  Meadow  brook. 
•2.    Board  of  Water  Commissioners. 

3.  Their  powers  and  duties. 

4.  Quorum,      and      vacancies     in 

board. 

5.  Assessment     of     compensation 

and  damages,  by  whom  made. 
6     Water  fund  bonds,  authority  to 

issue,  and  amount. 
7.    Water  Commissioners    trustees 

of  water  fund  bonds. 


SECTION 

8.  Water  rents,  how  applied. 

9.  Deficiency  of  water   rents  sup- 

plied by  tax. 

10.  Taxes    for   expenses    of   water- 

works, a  lien. 

11.  Orders,  and   bonds,   of    Water 

Commissioners. 

12.  Corrupting  the  water,  or  injur- 

ing the  water-works. 

13.  A  public  act,  and  how  accepted. 

14.  When  act  takes  effect. 


Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  in 
General  Assembly  convened. 


(1857) 


SECTION  1.     That  *"the  borough  of  New  Britain,"  is  hereby  Borough  au- 

J  thorized  to 

authorized  aud  empowered  to  take  water  from  the  stream  known  take  water 

from  Shuttle 

as  ''Shuttle  Meadow  Brook,'     at  any  feasible  point  near  the  Meadow 

brook 

southwest  corner  of  the  town  of  New  Britain,  either  within  or 
without  the  limits  of  said  town ;  provided  that  rights  of  other 
proprietors  sustaining  damage  thereby,  be  paid  for  by  said 
borough,  as  hereinafter  provided,  and  such  water  to  convey  and 
distribute  into  and  through  the  said  borough,  by  means  of  aque- 
ducts, reservoirs,  and  other  suitable  works,  in  such  quantities 
as  the  necessities  and  conveniences  of  said  borough  may  re- 
quire ;  also,  to  take  and  hold  any  lands  or  other  estate,  or  any  TO  take 

...  .  .  "  lands. 

privileges,  and  to  exercise  any  powers  not  inconsistent  with  the 
laws  of  this  state,  that  may  be  necessary  or  convenient  for 
carrying  into  full  effect  the  purposes  of  this  act.f 


*  See  amendment  next  following. 


f  Amended  May  30th,  1860. 


64 


NEW  BRITAIN  WATER   WORKS. 


Water  com- 
missioners 
(amended  by 
charter,  Sec- 
tion 93.) 


Water  com- 
missioners, 
powers  and 
duties  of. 


Water  for 
public  use. 


To  keep  re- 
cords and 
make 
reports. 


SEC.  2.  Said  borough  shall  immediately  upon  its  acceptance 
of  the  provisions  of  this  act,  proceed  to  elect  three  persons, 
who  shall  act  as  a  board  of  water  commissioners,  with  the  pow- 
ers conferred  by  this  act,  and  shall  hold  office  until  the  next 
annual  meeting  of  said  borough,  and  until  others  are  chosen  in 
their  stead  and  sworn,  and  at  each  annnal  meeting  hereafter 
there  shall  be  chosen  three  water  commissioners,  to  hold  office 
for  one  year,  and  until  their  successors  are  sworn. 

SEC.  3.  Said  commissioners  are  hereby  authorized  and  em- 
powered to  purchase  and  take  conveyances  for  and  in  the  name 
of  the  borough,  of  all  lands,  or  other  estates  or  privileges, 
necessary  or  convenient  for  accomplishing  the  purposes  of  this 
act ;  to  make  contracts  for  labor  and  materials  for  the  general 
purposes  contemplated  by  this  act ;  to  dam  and  hold  in  sufficient 
quantities  the  water  of  said  stream  ;  to  lay  and  construct  all 
necessary  pipes,  aqueducts,  or  reservoirs,  either  within  or  with-, 
out  said  borough ;  to  make  use  of  the  ground  or  soil  under  any 
railroad,  street,  high  or  private  way,  for  the  purposes  of  laying 
said  pipes  or  aqueducts  in  such  manner  as  least  to  obstruct  or 
impede  travel  thereon,  causing  all  damage  done  thereto  to  be 
repaired,  and  all  damages  sustained  by  any  person  or  corpora- 
tion, inconsequence  of  the  interruption  of  travel,  to  be  paid  to 
such  person  or  corporation  ;  to  make  and  establish  public  reser- 
voirs and  hydrants,  under  the  direction  of  the  warden  and  bur- 
gesses ;  to  regulate  the  distribution  and  use  of  said  water,  and 
establish  the  prices  to  be  paid  therefor.  Provided,  that  in  the 
regulation  of  water  for  all  public  uses,  said  board  shall  be  under 
the  direction  of  the  warden  and  burgesses ;  to  collect  all  water 
rents,  and  pay  over  the  same  to  the  borough  treasurer,  to  audit, 
allow,  and  draw  orders  on  the  treasurer  for  the  payment  of  all 
claims  against  said  borough  on  account  of  said  water  works, 
and  generally  to  attend  to  the  construction,  supervision,  care 
and  management  of  said  water  works,  and  to  exercise  any  addi- 
tional powers  that  may  from  time  to  time  be  conferred  upon 
them  by  said  borough ;  and  they  shall  keep  a  record  of  their 
official  proceedings  and  render  a  report  of  their  doings  to  said 
borough,  including  a  general  exhibit  of  the  state  of  the  works, 
an  account  of  sums  required  to  be  expended  therefor,  and  such 
other  matters  of  information  as  may  be  called  for  by  the  warden 
and  burgesses  at  each  annual  meeting ;  and  to  the  warden  and 


NEW  BRITAIN  WATER  WORKS. 

burgesses  whenever  by  them  required  ;  and  said  commissioners 
shall  keep  regular  books  of  account. 

SEC.  4.  A  majority  of  said  commissioners  shall  constitute  a 
quorum  for  the  transaction  of  any  of  the  business  of  said  board, 
and  all  vacancies  which  shall  occur  in  said  board,  by  death, 
resignation,  or  otherwise,  shall  be  filled  as  soon  as  may  be  by 
the  warden  and  burgesses. 

SEC.  5.     Whenever  disagreement  shall  be  had  between  said  Damages, 

how  ascer- 

board  and  the  owner  or  owners  of  any  property  or  privileges  tained  and 
which  may  be  required  for  the  purposes  of  this  act,  as  to  the 
amount  of  compensation  or  damages  to  be  paid  to  such  owner 
or  owners  for  the  same,  or  whenever  such  owner  shall  by  law 
be  incapable  of  contracting,  or  be  absent  from  this  state,  such 
compensation  or  damages  may  be  assessed  by  three  disinter- 
ested persons,  under  oath,  appointed  by  either  judge  of  the 
supreme  court  of  errors,  on  application  made  to  said  judge,  by 
or  on  behalf  of  either  party,  after  such  notice  shall  be  given  of 
such  application,  as  said  judge  shall  see  fit  to  prescribe,  which 
said  appraisers  shall  report  their  doings,  embracing  the  amount 
of  their  assessment,  to  the  clerk  of  the  superior  court  for  Hart- 
ford county,  to  be  by  him  recorded,  and  thereupon  such  assess- 
ment shall  be  taken  and  held  to  be  a  final  adjustment  of  said 
compensation  and  damages  between  said  parties,  and  upon  pay- 
ment thereof,  or  deposit  of  the  same  with  the  county  treasurer, 
to  the  use  of  such  owner  or  owners,  said  commissioners  may 
proceed  with  the  construction  of  said  works,  without  liability 
to  any  further  claim  to  compensation  or  damages. 

SEC.  6.  For  the  purpose  of  defraying  the  cost  of  construe-  ^tle 
tion  of  said  water- works,  including  the  cost  of  purchase  and*50'000- 
the  other  expenses  incident  thereto,  and  for  no  other  purpose 
whatever,  said  borough  is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to 
issue  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt,  to  be  denominated  on 
the  face  thereof,  ''Water  Fund  of  the  borough  of  New  Britain," 
to  an  amount  not  exceeding  in  the  whole  the  sum  of  fifty  'thous- 
and dollars,  bearing  interest  at  no  greater  rate  than  seven  per 
cent,  per  annum,  the  principal  of  which  shall  be  payable  at 
some  certain  time  or  times,  within  thirty  years  from  issuing  of 
the  same,  and  the  amount  of  said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates 
which  may  at  any  time  be  issued  together  with  the  times  of  pay- 
ment of  the  principal  and  interest  thereof,  and  the  rate  of  in-  ^e  of  lnter" 


66 


NEW  BRITAIN  WATER  WORKS. 


Water  com- 
missioners to 
be  trustees  of 
and  sell  the 
bonds. 


To  keep  a 
record. 


Water  rents, 
how  ex- 
pended. 


Deficiencies, 
how  pro- 
vided for. 


Tax  for  defi- 
ciencies, how 
collected. 

Water  rents 
a  Hen  upon 
property. 


terest  shall  be  prescribed  by  said  borough,  in  legal  borough 
meeting  for  that  purpose  specially  called  and  held,  and  said 
notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  shall  be  signed  by  the  warden  and 
countersigned  by  the  treasurer  of  said  borough,  and  shall,  when 
issued,  be  obligatory  upon  said  borough  and  the  inhabitants 
thereof,  according  to  the  purport  and  tenor  of  the  same. 

SEC.  7.  Said  board  of  water  commissioners  shall  be  the 
trustees  of  the  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt,  issued  by 
said  borough,  shall  superintend  the  issuing  of  the  same,  and 
regulate  the  particular  form  thereof,  and  after  the  same  or  any 
part  thereof  shall  be  issued,  they  may  sell  the  same,  in  such 
manner  and  on  such  terms  as  they  may  deem  best,  or  they  may 
pledge  the  same  for  moneys  borrowed  by  said  borough,  to  be 
used  in  or  about  the  construction  of  said  works.  And  said 
board  shall  keep  a  record  of  all  such  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates 
issued,  disposed  of,  or  pledged,  and  all  moneys  received  by 
said  board  shall  be  by  them  paid  over  to  the  borough  treasurer. 

SEC.  8.  The  avails  of  all  water  rents  shall  be  first  applied 
to  defraying  the  ordinary  and  current  expenses  of  said  water- 
works, after  which,  to  the  payment  of  the  interest  on  said  notes, 
scrip,  or  certificates,  and  if  there  shall  at  any  time  still  be  an 
excess,  the  borough  treasurer  shall  report  the  fact  to  the  warden 
and  burgesses,  who  may  direct  whether  the  same  be  applied  to 
the  extinguishment  of  the  principal  debt  incurred  by  the  issuing 
of  said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates,  or  to  any  other  purpose  in 
connection  with  said  works. 

SEC.  9.  In  case  the  avails  of  water  rents  in  an}-  year  shall 
be  inadequate  to  meet  the  current  expenses  of  said  water- 
works, and  the  interest  of  said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates,  the 
deficiency  shall  be  supplied  by  the  laying  of  a  tax  on  the  grand 
list  of  all  persons  liable  to  borough  taxation,  which  said  tax 
may  be  laid  at  any  borough  meeting  legally  called  for  that  pur- 
pose, and  said  borough  may  at  any  borough  meeting  for  that 
purpose  specially  called  and  held,  lay  taxes  for  the  purpose  of 
paying  the  principal  debt  aforesaid,  or  any  part  thereof,  by  the 
establishment  of  a  sinking  fund  or  in  any  other  manner. 

SEC.  10.  Taxes  laid  for  the  purposes  mentioned  in  the  pre- 
ceding section,  may  be  collected  in  the  same  manner  as  other 
borough  taxes,  and  any  claim  of  said  borough  for  the  use  of 
water,  shall  be  a  lien  upon  the  house,  tenement,  or  lot,  wherein, 


NEW  BRITAIN  WATER  WORKS. 

or  in  connection  with  which,  said  water  was  used  by  the  owner 
or  occupier  thereof.  And  said  lien  may  be  foreclosed  before 
any  court  having  jurisdiction,  in  the  same  manner  as  a  mortgage 
is  now  foreclosed,  according  to  the  rules  of  equity. 

SEC.  11.     It  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  commissioners  to  desig- 
nate  in  all  orders  by  them  drawn  upon  the  treasurer,  the  class  P^h"36  for 
to  which  the  same  belongs,   whether  construction  account  ordrawn- 
expense  account,  and  the  treasurer  shall  pay  all  such  orders 
from  the  appropriate  fund  as  established  in  the  foregoing  sec- 
tions of  this  act.     And  such  commissioners  and  treasurer  shall  Bonds, 
give  bonds  with  sufficient  surety  for  the  faithful  performance  of 
their  several  trusts  in  such  sums  and  shall  receive  for  their  ser- 
vices such  compensations  as  the  warden  and  burgesses  shall 
prescribe. 

SEC.  12.  If  any  person  shall  willfully  and  maliciously  cor- 
rupt  the  water  in  any  reservoir,  hydrant,  aqueduct  pipe  or 
portion  of  said  water-works,  or  destroy  or  injure  any  portion  of  penalty  for. 
such  works,  or  any  materials  or  property  used  or  designed  to  be 
used  in  connection  therewith,  he  shall  forfeit  and  pa}T  to  said 
borough  treble  damages  in  an  action  of  trespass  brought  by 
said  borough,  and  such  person,  on  conviction  thereof  before  any 
court  having  jurisdiction  of  the  offense,  shall  be  punished  by 
fine  not  exceeding  three  hundred  dollars,  or  by  imprisonment 
not  exceeding  one  year,  or  by  such  fine  and  imprisonment  both. 

SEC.  13.     This  act  shall  to  all  intents  and  purposes  be  a  pub-  Togointoef- 

fect  when  ac- 

hc  act,  and  may  be  altered,  amended,  or  repealed  by  the  general  cepted  by  the 

borough. 

assembly  ;  and  the  same  shall  not  go  into  effect  until  it  has  been 
accepted  by  said  borough  at  a  borough  meeting  legally  warned 
for  that  purpose,  in  conformity  with  the  provisions  of  the  by- 
laws of  said  borough  for  the  warning  of  special  meetings  there- 
of, and  to  be  held  within  two  weeks  from  the  date  of  the  pass- 
age hereof,  at  which  meeting  the  votes  shall  be  taken  by  ballots, 
written  "yes"  and  "no,"  and  if  two-thirds  of  the  ballots  so 
cast  in  said  meeting  shall  have  upon  the  same  the  word  "yes," 
then  this  act  shall  be  in  full  force,  otherwise  the  same  shall  be 
null  and  void  ;  the  boxes  to  receive  the  ballots  aforesaid  shall 
be  kept  open  on  such  day  of  voting  from  nine  o'clock  A.  M., 
until  two  o'clock  P.  M.,  and  the  votes  shall  be  counted  and  the 
result  declared  in  the  manner  prescribed  for  the  election  of  the 
annual  officers  of  said  borough ;  and  if  at  said  meeting  this  act 


68 


To  take 
effect. 


NEW  BRITAIN  WATER  WORKS. 

shall  be  accepted  by  said  borough,  said  borough  may  thereupon 
proceed  at  the  same  meeting  to  vote  upon  the  matter  of  issuing 
said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates,  and  to  elect  said  commissioners 
and  transact  any  other  business  contemplated  in  the  provisions 
of  this  act,  provided  notice  thereof  shall  have  been  inserted  in 
the  call  for  said  meeting. 

SEC.  14.     This  act  shall  take  effect  from  the  day  of  its  accept- 
ance, in  manner  aforesaid,  by  the  said  borough  of  New  Britain. 


AN  ACT  IN  AMENDMENT  OF  AN  ACT  ENTITLED  "AN  ACT 
TO  SUPPLY  THE  BOROUGH  OF  NEW  BRITAIN  WITH 
WATER  FOR  PUBLIC  AND  PRIVATE  PURPOSES." 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  in 
General  Assembly  convened: 

SECTION  1.  That  the  act  entitled  "An  act  to  supply  the 
of  the  preced- borough  of  New  Britain  with  water  for  public  and  private  pur- 
poses," passed  at  this  session  of  the  general  assembly,  be 
amended  by  the  insertion  of  the  words,  "  The  warden,  bur- 
gesses, and  freemen  of,"  between  the  words  "  that"  and  "  the  " 
in  the  first  line  of  the  first  section  of  said  act. 

SEC.  2.     This  act  shall  be  a  public  act,  and  take  effect  from 
its  passage. 


Amending 
section  first 


AMENDING  "AN  ACT  TO  SUPPLY  THE  BOROUGH  OF  NEW 
BRITAIN  WITH  WATER  FOR  PUBLIC  AND  PRIVATE 
PURPOSES." 


SECTION 

1.    Extension  of  water  pipes  to  town 
limits  authorized. 


SECTION 
2.    When  act  takes  effect. 


Resolved  by  this  Assembly : 

SECTION  1.     That  the  warden,  burgesses  and  freemen  of  the 


NEW  BRITAIN  WATER  WORKS.  69 


borough  of  New  Britain  be,  and  they  hereby  are,  authorized 

and  empowered  to  extend  and  continue  their  water  pipes  to  authorized  to 

localities  without  the  limits  of  said  borough,   and  within  the  ^£end  pipes 

town  of  New  Britain,  and  to  supply  and  distribute  water  by  limits. 

them  taken  under  the  provision  of  said  act,  to  the  proprietors 

or  occupants  of  such  localities,   upon   such  terms  as  may  be 

agreed    upon   between    said    proprietors  or  occupants  and  the 

proper  officers  of  said  borough  ;  and  all  the  powers  and  priv- 

ileges conferred  upon  said  borough  by  said  act,  shall  apply  to 

this  act,  so  far  as  may  be  necessary  to  make  the  same  fully 

effectual  for  the  purposes  aforesaid  ;  provided,  that  this  act  may 

be  altered,  amended,  or  repealed  at  the  pleasure  of  the  general 

assembly. 

SEC.  2.     This  act  shall  take  effect  from  the  day  of  its  passage. 

Approved,  May  30th,  1860. 


BONDS,   SECOND   SERIES. 


AUTHORIZING  THE  BOROUGH  OF  NEW  BRITAIN  TO  ISSUE 
BONDS  FOR  PROCURING  AN  ADDITIONAL  SUPPLY  OF 
WATER. 

Resolved  by  this  Assembly  : 

(1867) 

That  the  warden,  burgesses,  and  freemen  of  the  borough  of  Additional 
New  Britain  are  hereby  authorized  to  take  and  hold  any  and  all 
lands  and  other  estate  that  may  be  necessary  for  laying  an  addi- 
tional pipe  from  the  present  reservoir  of  the  water  works  to  the 
said  borough,  said  land  and  other  estate  to  be  taken,  held  and 
compensation  to  be  made  in  the  manner  provided  in  the  "Act 
to  supply  the  borough  of  New  Britain  with  water  for  public  and 
private  purposes." 

Resolved  further.  That  for  the  purpose  of  defraying  the  cost  water  bonds 

second  series 

of  laying  such  additional  main  pipe,  and  other  expenses  incident  of  $75,000. 
to  the  construction  and  completion  of  said  water  works,  and  for 
said  purpose  only,  said  borough  is  hereby  authorized  and  em- 


70  NEW  BRITAIN  WATER  WORKS. 

powered  to  issue  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt,  to  be  denom- 
inated on  the  face  thereof,  the  "Water  Fund  of  the  borough 
of  New  Britain,  second  series,"  to  an  amount  not  exceeding  in 
the  whole  the  sum  of  seventy -five  thousand  dollars,  bearing 
interest  at  no  greater  rate  than  seven  per  cent,  per  annum,  the 
principal  of  which  shall  be  payable  at  some  certain  time  or  times 
within  thirty  years  from  issuing  the  same,  and  the  amount  of 
said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  which  may  at  any  time  be  issued, 
together  with  the  times  of  payment  of  the  principal  and  interest 
thereof,  and  the  rate  of  interest  shall  be  prescribed  by  said 
borough  in  legal  meeting  for  that  purpose  called  and  held,  and 
said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  shall  be  signed  by  the  warden 
and  countersigned  by  the  treasurer  of  said  borough,  and  shall, 
when  issued,  be  obligatory  upon  said  borough  and  the  inhabitants 
thereof  according  to  the  tenor  of  the  same  ;  and  the  water  com- 
missioners of  said  borough  shall  have  the  same  interest  in,  and 
power  over  said  bonds  for  the  purposes  aforesaid,  which 
they  now  have  by  law  in  and  over  bonds  hitherto  issued  pursu- 
Approvai  ant  to  the  charter  of  said  water -works,  provided,  that  this 
act  shall  not  take  effect,  until  approved  by  a  majority  of  the 
legal  voters  of  said  borough,  at  a  meeting  duly  warned  and 
held  for  that  purpose. 

Approved,  July  llth,  1867. 

AUTHORIZING  THE  ISSUE  OF  BALANCE  OF  BONDS  HERE- 
TOFORE AUTHORIZED  BY  THE  BOROUGH  OF  NEW 
BRITAIN  BY  THE  CITY  OF  NEW  BRITAIN. 

(1871) 

Authorizing        Whereas,  the  general  assembly  of  the  state  of  Connecticut, 

the  comple- 
tion of  the      at  the  May  session  thereof,  in  the  year  1867,  did  pass  a  reso- 
issue  of  the  J  J 

second  series,  lution  authorizing  the  community,  then  known  as  the  warden, 

burgesses,  and  freemen  of  the  borough  of  New  Britain,  to  issue 
notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt,  to  the  amount  of  seventy- 
five  thousand  dollars  for  the  purposes  of  aiding  in  the  construc- 
tion and  completion  of  the  water  works  of  said  New  Britain  : 
and  whereas,  said  community  did  accept  said  resolution,  as 
provided  therein,  and  has  duly  issued  bonds  pursuant  thereto, 
to  the  amount  of  fifty  thousand  dollars  :  and  whereas  said  com- 
munity, now  known  as  the  city  of  New  Britain,  is  desirous  of 
issuing  the  amount  of  bonds  remaining  to  be  issued,  under  the 
original  grant  of  authority  aforesaid, 


NEW  BRITAIN  WATER  WORKS.  71 

Resolved  by  this  Assembly  : 

That  said  city  of  New  Britain  is  hereby  authorized  to  issue 
its  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt  to  the  amount  of  twenty-  city 
five  thousand  dollars,  to  be  denominated  on  the  face  thereof,  the 
"Water  Fund  of  the  city  of  New  Britain,"  and  to  be  signed  by 
the  mayor  and  countersigned  by  the  treasurer  of  said  city,  but 
to  be  in  all  other  respects  conformatory  to  the  provisions  of  the 
original  resolution  accepted  as  aforesaid. 

Approved,  June  16th,  1871. 


BONDS,  THIRD   SERIES. 


AUTHORIZING  THE  CITY  OF  NEW  BRITAIN  TO  ISSUE  AD- 
DITIONAL WATER  BONDS. 

Resolved  by  this  Assembly : 

(1873) 

That  for  the  purpose  of  defraying  the  cost  and  expenses  inci- 
dent  to  the  construction,  completion,  and  extension  of  the of  $75-000 
water-works  of  the  city  of  New  Britain  and  for  said  purpose 
only,  the  said  city  of  New  Britain  is  hereby  authorized  and 
empowered  to  issue  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt,  to  be 
denominated  on  the  face  thereof,  the  "Water  Fund  of  the  city 
of  New  Britain,  third  series,"  to  an  amount  not  exceeding,  in 
the  whole,  the  sum  of  seventy-five  thousand  dollars,  ($75,000,) 
bearing  interest  at  no  greater  rate  than  seven  per  cent,  per  an- 
num, the  principal  of  which  shall  be  payable  at  some  certain 
time  or  times  within  thirty  years  from  issuing  the  same,  and  the 
amount  of  said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates,  which  may  at  any 
time  be  issued,  together  with  the  times  of  payment  of  the  prin- 
cipal and  interest  thereof;  and  the  rate  of  interest  shall  be  pre- 
scribed by  said  city,  in  legal  meeting  for  that  purpose  called  and 
held,  and  said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates,  shall  be  signed  by 
the  mayor,  and  countersigned  by  the  treasurer  of  said  city,  and 
shall,  when  issued,  be  obligatory  on  said  city  and  the  inhabi- 
tants thereof,  according  to  the  tenor  of  the  same  ;  and  the  water 


NEW  BRITAIN  WATER  WORKS. 


Approval 
necessary. 


commissioners  of  said  city  shall  have  the  same  interest  in  and 
power  over  said  bonds  for  the  purposes  aforesaid,  which  they 
now  have,  by  law,  over  the  bonds  commonly  known  as  "water 
bonds,"  hitherto  issued  by  the  borough  and  the  city  of  New 
Britain,  under  the  various  acts  authorizing  the  same  ;  provided, 
that  this  act  shall  not  take  effect  until  approved  by  a  majority  of 
the  legal  voters  of  said  city,  at  a  meeting  duly  warned  and  held 
for  that  purpose. 

Approved,  July  1st,  1873. 


BONDS,    FOURTH   SERIES. 


sioners  to 
take  streams 
or  water 

sources,(  Pan 
ther  swamp 


fourth  series 
of  $80,ooo. 


AN  ACT  TO  EXTEND  THE  POWERS  OF  THE  BOARD  OF 
WATER  COMMISSIONERS  AND  AUTHORIZING  THE  IS- 
SUE OF  ADDITIONAL  BONDS. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  in 
General  Assembly  convened. 

SECTION  1.  The  board  of  water  commissioners  of  the  city 
of  New  Britain  for  the  purpose  of  improving  and  increasing  the 

water  supply  of  said  city  are  hereby  authorized  and  empowered 

.  * 

in  behalf  of  said  city  to  take  and  hold  any  stream  or  water 

source,  and  any  land  necessary  or  convenient  for  constructing 
aqueducts  and  reservoirs  within  the  limits  of  the  towns  of  Berlin 
and  New  Britain,  and  any  land  or  water  right,  title,  privilege  or 
franchise  which  may  be  required,  taken  or  impaired  for  the  pur- 
pose aforesaid,  shall  be  compensated  for,  and  the  damages  there- 
f°r  ascertained,  liquidated  and  paid  in  the  same  manner  pro- 
vided  in  the  fifth  section  of  the  act  to  supply  the  borough  of 
New  Britain  with  water  for  public  and  private  purposes. 

SEC.  2.  For  the  purpose  of  defraying  the  cost  of  thus  in- 
creasiQg  ^s  water  supply,  said  board  of  water  commissioners 
are  hereby  authorized  to  issue  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of 
debt  to  an  amount  not  exceeding  thirty  thousand  dollars,  which 
shall  be  denominated  on  their  face,  the  "Water  Fund  of  the 
city  of  New  Britain,  fourth  series,"  and  shall  in  all  respects 
be  issued  in  conformity  to  the  provisions  of  a  resolution  author- 
izing the  city  of  New  Britain  to  issue  additional  water  bonds. 


NEW  BRITAIN  WATER  WORKS.  73 

Passed  at  the  May   session   of  this   assembly,  1873,  and  ap- 
proved July  1st,  of  the  same  year. 

SEC.  3.     This  act  shall  not  take   effect  until  approved  by  a  Approval 

17        necessary. 

majority  of  the  legal    voters   of  said  city  at   a  meeting  dulj* 
warned  and  held  for  that  purpose. 
Approved,  May  3d,  1883. 


BONDS,  FIFTH  SERIES. 


AN  ACT  TO  EXTEND  THE  POWERS  OF  THE  BOARD  OF 
WATER  COMMISSIONERS  AND  AUTHORIZING  THE  IS- 
SUE OF  ADDITIONAL  BONDS. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  in 
General  Assembly  convened. 

SECTION  1.     The  board  of  water  commissioners  of  the  city  Water  Com- 

missioners 
of  New  Britain,  for  the  purpose  of  improving  and  increasing  the  authorized  to 

take  water 

water  supply  of  said  city,   are  hereby  authorized  and   empow-  and  buiui 

i  •     i     i     i*     /.       .,."  ,         -I-IT  .aqueducts  In 

ered  in  behalf  of  said  cit}1  to  take,  hold,  and  use  the  water  of  Piainviiie 
any  spring  or  springs,  stream  or  streams,  or  other  waters,  and  Southington. 
any   land   necessar}r   or  convenient  for    conducting    aqueducts 
and  reservoirs  within  the  limits  of  the  towns  of  Plainville  and 
Southington,  to  such  an  extent  as  ma}-  be  necessary  and  expedi- 
ent in  carrying  into  effect  the  objects  of  this  act,   and  any  land 
or  water  right,  title,  privilege  or  franchise  which  may  be  re- 
quired, taken,  or  impaired  for  the  purpose  aforesaid,  shall  be 

compensated  for  and  the  damages  therefor  ascertained,  liqui-  Damages, 

.  how  ascer- 

dated  and  paid  in  the  manner  provided  in  the  fifth  section  of  tained  and 

the  act  to  supply  the  borough  of  New  Britain  with  water  for 
public  and  private  purposes;  provided  that  this  act  shall  not 
enable  the  city  of  New  Britain  to  take  and  appropriate  any 


streams  of  water  whose  natural  course  is  westwardly  and  to  or  vlle  not  to 

be  taken. 

towards  the  village  of  Plainville,  but  only  such  streams  as 
naturally  flow  eastwardly  and  towards  New  Britain  or  Shuttle 
Meadow  reservoir. 

SEC.  2.     That   for   the   purpose   of  defraying   the  increased  Water  bonds, 

J  fifth  series 

cost  and  expense,  over  and  above  the  sum  of  thirty  thousand  of  *2o,ouo. 

dollars,    ($30,000,)    incident   to  the   construction,   completion 

10 


74  NEW  BRITAIN  WATER  WOR^S. 

and  extension  of  the  water  works  as  provided  in  an  act  entitled 
"An  act  to  extend  the  powers  of  the  board  of  water  commis- 
sioners of  the  city  of  New  Britain,"  passed  at  the  January  ses- 
sion 1883,  of  this  assembly,  and  approved  May  3,  1883,  and 
also  for  the  purpose  of  strengthening,  raising  and  enlarging 
the  dam  known  as  Shuttle  Meadow  dam,  and  for  the  purpose 
of  extending  and  continuing  and  replacing  water  pipes  or  hy- 
drants, and  for  an}7  other  purpose  necessary  for  the  proper 
maintenance  and  preservation  of  the  water  works  of  said  city, 
said  board  of  water  commissioners  are  hereby  authorized  and 
empowered  to  issue  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt  to  an 
amount  not  exceeding  twenty  thousand  dollars,  ($20,000,)  which 
shall  be  denominated  on  their  face,  the  "Water  Fund  of  the 
city  of  New  Britain,  fifth  series,"  and  shall  in  all  respects  be 
issued  in  conformity  to  the  provisions  of  a  resolution  authorizing 
the  city  of  New  Britain  to  issue  additional  water  bonds,  passed 
at  the  May  session,  1873,  of  this  assembly,  and  approved  July 
1st,  of  the  same  year. 
Approval  SEC.  3.  This  act  shall  not  take  effect  until  approved  by  a 

necessary. 

majority  of  the  legal  voters  of  said  city,  present  at  a  meeting 
duly  warned  and  held  for  that  purpose. 


BONDS,   SIXTH   SERIES. 


EXTENDING  THE  POWERS  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  WATER 
COMMISSIONERS  OF  THE  CITY  OF  NEW  BRITAIN,  AND 
AUTHORIZING  THE  ISSUE  OF  ADDITIONAL  BONDS. 

Resolved  by  this  Assembly: 

(1893) 

Water  bonds.     SECTION  1.     That  for  the  purpose  of  defraying  the  cost  of  and 

sixth  series  of  J 

$200,000,  pur-    expenses  incident  to  the  building,  construction,  and  completion 

pose  of  Issu- 

ing. of  a  new  dam  and  gate-house  at  Shuttle  Meadow  lake,  so  called, 

Nate  house  an(^  °^  Defraying  tne  cogt  of  acquiring  land  on  and  near  the  bor- 

act1"}1  n1^  ^ers  °f  sa^  lake,  for  the  purpose  of  increasing  the  holding  ca- 

ui  Pacitv  °f  s&^  lake,  and  of  changing  the  location  of  the  highway 


bulletin  -         located  next  west  of  said  lake,  and  for  the  purpose  of  defraying 
west  canal.  r 

the  cost  of  lands,  streams,  water  rights,  and  privileges  acquired 


NEW  BRITAIN  WATER  WORKS.  75 

in  the  town  of  New  Britain  for  the  construction  and  building 
of  an  aqueduct  or  canal  known  as  the  west  canal,  and  fully  de- 
scribed on  a  map  on  file  in  the  office  of  the  board  of  water  com- 
missioners in  said  city,  and  entitled  "Map  showing  the  layout 
of  West  canal,  and  the  land  necessary  to  be  taken  for  its  con- 
struction," and  dated  October  6th,  1892  ;  and  for  the  purpose 
of  defraying  the  cost  of  and  expenses  incident  to  the  acquiring 
of  the  said  land,  rights,  and  privileges,  and  the  building  and 
construction  of  said  aqueduct  or  canal  through  and  over  said 
acquired  land  for  improving  and  increasing  the  water  supply  of 
said  city  ;  and  for  the  purpose  of  defraying  the  cost  of  land 
acquired  for  the  laying  of  a  twenty-four  inch  water  main  from  New  water 

main  from 

said  lake  into  said  citv  ;  for  the  purpose  of  defraying  the  cost  shuttle 

n  Meadow 

thereof,  and  expenses  incident  to  the  purchasing  of  pipe  and  to  city. 

all  material   necessary  to  the  laying,   construction,   and  com- 

pletion of  said  water  main,  and  the  cost  of  laying  said  pipe  ; 

and  for  the  purpose  of  defraying  the  cost  of  all  work,  labor, 

materials,  and  services  rendered,  and  expenses  incident  to  the 

laying  of  said  water  main,  and  the  construction  and  completion 

of  said  dam,  said  gate-house,  and  said  canal,  and  the  acquiring 

of  said  lands  for  the  purpose  of  improving  and  increasing  the 

water  supply  of  said  city,  the  board  of  water  commissioners  of 

said  city  of  New  Britain  are  hereby  authorized  to  issue  notes, 

scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt  to  an  amount  not  exceeding  two 

hundred  thousand  dollars,  which  shall  be  denominated  on  their 

face,    the   "Water  Fund  of  the    city  of   New    Britain,   sixth 

series,"  and  shall  in  all  respects  be  issued  in  conformity  to  the  issue  to  con- 

..,_..,-.._..  form  to  pro- 

provisions  of  a  resolution  authorizing  the  City  of  New  Britain  to  visions  of  act 

issue  additional  water  bonds,  passed  at  the  May  session  of  the 
general  assembly,  1873,  and  approved  July  1st,  of  the  same  year. 

SEC.  2.     The  said  issue  of  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt  TO  be  in  ad- 


to  said  amount  not  exceeding  two  hundred  thousand  dollars  is  sue^of  sums 


hereby  authorized  in  addition  to  the  sum  of  thirty  thousand  of    xo 
dollars  as  provided  in  an  act  entitled  "An  act  to  extend  the  thorized!u~ 
powers  of  the  board  of  water  commissioners  of  the  city  of  New 
Britain,"  passed  at  the  January  session  of  the  general  assembly, 

1883,  and  approved  May  3d,  1883,  and  in  addition  to  the  sum 
of  twenty  thousand  dollars,  as  provided  in  an  act  entitled  "An 
act  to  extend  the  powers  of  the  board  of   water  commission- 
ers," passed  at  the  January  session  of  the  general  assembly, 

1884,  and  approved  March  18th,  1884. 


76 


NEW  BRITAIN  WATER  WORKS. 


Approval 

necessary. 


SEC.  3.  This  act  shall  not  take  effect  until  approved  by  a 
majority  of  the  legal  voters  of  said  city,  present  at  a  meeting 
duly  warned  for  that  purpose. 

Approved,  March  16th,  1893. 


Renewal 

Issue  of  city 
and  water 
fund  bonds 
authorized. 


Renewal 
bonds  to  con 
form  toorigl 
nul pro- 
visions. 


AUTHORIZING  THE  CITY  OF  NEW  BRITAIN  TO  REDEEM 
ITS  OUTSTANDING  BONDS  BY  THE  ISSUE  OF  NEW 
BONDS. 

Resolved  by  this  Assembly  : 

When  any  bonds,  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt  issued 
by  the  city  of  New  Britain,  or  by  the  board  of  water  commis- 
sioners of  said  city,  under  and  by  authority  of  the  general 
assembly  of  this  state,  shall  become  due  and  payable,  and  said 
city  of  New  Britain,  or  said  board  of  water  commissioners,  shall 
desire  to  redeem  them  by  the  issue  of  new  bonds,  notes,  scrip, 
or  certificates  of  debt,  said  city  of  New  Britain,  or  said  board 
of  water  commissioners,  shall  be  and  are  hereby  authorized  to 
issue  new  bonds,  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt  for  such 
purpose,  which  said  bonds,  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt 
shall  bear  upon  their  face  the  same  denomination  as  the  original 
bonds,  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt  with  the  additional 
words  "renewal  issue"  ;  provided,  each  and  every  such  renewal 
•  issue  shall  in  all  respects  be  issued  in  conformity  to  the  provis- 
ions of  the  original  resolution,  enacted  by  the  general  assembly 
of  this  state,  authorizing  the  issue  of  the  original  bonds,  notes, 
scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt  to  be  redeemed  by  such  renewal 
issue. 

Approved,  March  10th,  1893, 


ACTS 


AUTHORIZING    THE    ISSUE 


OF 


SEWER    BONDS 


SEWER    BONDS. 


SEWER  FUND  BONDS,  FIRST  SERIES, 


Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  in 
General  Assembly  convened : 

SECTION  1.     That  for  the  purposes  of  defraying  the  cost  and 

Sewer  bonds, 

expense  incident  to  the  laying  out,  constructing,  and  repairing  *i50,ooo. 
of  sewers  and  drains  in  the  city  of  New  Britain,  and  of  paying 
the  indebtedness  of  said  city  already  accrued,  and  now  existing 
on  account  of  the  purchase  of  the  "Shepard  property,"  so-called, 
and  for  said  purposes  only,  the  s;iid  city  of  New  Britain  is  here- 
by authorized  and  empowered  to  issue  notes,  scrip,  or  certifi- 
cates of  debt,  to  be  denominated  on  the  face  thereof,  the  "Sewer 
Fund  of  the  city  of  New  Britain."  to  an  amount  not  exceeding 
in  the  whole  the  sum  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  ($150,- 
000)  dollars,  bearing  interest  of  no  greater  rate  than  per 

cent,  per  annum,  the  principal  of  which  shall  be  payable  at  some 
certain  time  or  times  within  years  from  issuing  the  same, 

and  the  amount  of  said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  which  ma3r  at 
any  time  be  issued,  together  with  the  times  of  payment  of  the 
principal  and  interest  thereof,  and  the  rate  of  interest,  shall  be 
prescribed  by  said  city  in  legal  meeting  for  that  purpose  called 
and  held,  and  said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  shall  be  signed  by 
the  mayor  and  countersigned  by  the  treasurer  of  said  city,  and 
shall,  when  issued,  be  obligatory  on  said  city  and  the  inhabitants 
thereof,  according  to  the  tenor  of  the  same,  and  all  snms  of 

money  realized  from  the  sale  or  other  disposition  of  said  "Shep- 

11 


82  NEW  BRITAIN  SEWER  BONDS. 

ard  property,"  or  any  portion  thereof,  or  from  sewer  assessments, 
shall  belong  to  the  sewer  fund  of  said  city,  and  shall  be  used  for 
sewer  purposes  only 


necessary.          SEC.  5-     This  act  sha11  take  effect  from  its  passage  and  when 
approved  by  a  majority  of  the  legal  voters  of  said  city  present  at 
a  meeting  duly  warned  and  held  for  that  purpose. 
Approved,  June  9th,  1874. 


SEWER  FUND  BONDS,  SECOND  SERIES, 


Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  in 
General  Assembly  convened : 

(1886) 

Sewer  bonds,      SECTION  1.     For  the  purpose  of  defraying  the  cost  and  ex- 

$50,000. 

pense  incident  to  lajnng  out,  constructing,  repairing  and  extend- 
ing sewers  and  drains,  in  the  city  of  New  Britain,  and  for  said 
purpose  only,  the  said  city  is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered 
to  issue  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt,  to  be  denominated 
on  the  face  thereof,  the  "Sewer  Fund  of  the  city  of  New  Britain, 
second  series,"  to  an  amount  not  exceeding  in  the  whole  the 
sum  of  fifty  thousand  ($50,000)  dollars,  bearing  interest  at  no 
greater  rate  than  five  per  cent,  per  annum,  the  principal  of 
which  shall  be  payable  at  some  time  or  times  within  thirty  years 
from  issuing  the  same,  and  the  amount  of  said  notes,  scrip,  or 
certificates  which  may  at  any  time  be  issued,  together  with  the 
times  of  payment  of  the  principal  and  interest  thereof,  and  the 
rate  of  interest  shall  be  prescribed  by  said  city  in  legal  meeting 
for  that  purpose  called  and  held  ;  and  said  notes,  scrip,  or  certifi- 
cates shall  be  signed  by  the  mayor  and  countersigned  by  the 
treasurer  of  said  ciiy,  and  shall,  when  issued  be  obligatory  on 
said  city  and  the  inhabitants  thereof  according  to  the  tenor  of 
the  same. 

sewer  com-         SEC.  2.     The  board  of  sewer  commissioners  of  said  city  shall 

missioned.     ^e  tQe  trustees  of  tne  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt  issued 

by  said  city  under  the  provisions  of  this  act,   shall  superintend 


NEW  BRITAIN  SEWER  BONDS.  83 

the  issuing  of  the  same,  and  regulate  the  particular  form  thereof; 
and  after  the  same  or  any  part  thereof  shall  be  issued,  they  may 
sell  the  same  in  such  manner  and~on  such  terms  as  they  may 
deem  best,  or  they  may  pledge  the  same  for  moneys  borrowed 
by  said  city  to  be  used  for  sewer  purposes.  Said  board  shall 
keep  a  record  of  all  such  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  issued,  dis- 
posed of  or  pledged,  and  all  moneys  received  by  said  board  shall 
be  by  them  paid  over  to  the  treasurer  of  said  city. 

SEC.  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect  from  its  passage,  and 
when  approved  by  a  majority  of  the  legal  voters  of  said  city 
present  at  a  meeting  duly  warned  and  held  for  that  purpose. 

Approved,  March  12th,  1886. 


SEWER  FUND  BONDS,  THIRD  SERIES, 


Resolved  by  this  Assembly : 

SECTION  1.     That  for  the  purpose  of  defraying  the  cost  and 

J  Sewer  l:onds, 

expense  incident  to  the  laying  out,  constructing,  repairing,  and*ioo,ooo. 
extending  sewers  and  drains  in  the  city  of  New  Britain,  and  to 
increase  the  sewer  facilities  of  said  city,  and  for  said  purpose 
only,  the  said  city  of  New  Britain  is  hereby  authorized  and  em- 
powered to  issue  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt,  to  be  de- 
nominated OD  the  face  thereof ;  the  "Sewer  Fund  of  the  city  of 
New  Britain,  third  series,"  to  an  amount  not  exceeding  in  the 
whole  the  sum  of  one  hundred  thousand  ($100,000)  dollars, 
bearing  interest  at  no  greater  rate  than  five  per  cent,  per  annum, 
the  principal  of  which  shall  be  payable  at  some  time  or  times 
within  thirty  years  from  issuing  the  same,  and  the  amount  of 
said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt  which  may  at  any  time 
be  issued,  together  with  the  times  of  payment  of  the  principal 
and  interest  thereof,  and  the  rate  of  interest,  shall  be  prescribed 
by  said  city  in  legal  meeting  for  that  purpose  called  and  held  ; 
and  said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt  shall  be  signed  by 
the  mayor  and  countersigned  by  the  treasurer  of  said  city,  and 
shall,  when  issued,  be  obligatory  on  said  city  and  the  inhabitants 
thereof  according  to  the  tenor  of  the  same. 


84 


Duties  of 
sewer  com- 
missioners. 


Approval 
necessary. 


NEW  BRITAIN  SEWER  BONDS. 

SEC.  2.  The  hoard  of  sewer  commissioners  of  said  city  shall 
be  the  trustees  of  the  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt  issued 
03-  said  city  under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  shall  superintend  the 
issuing  of  the  same,  and  regulate  the  particular  form  thereof; 
and  after  the  same  or  any  part  thereof  shall  be  issued,  they  may 
sell  the  same  in  such  manner  and  on  such  terms  as  they  may 
deem  best,  or  they  may  pledge  the  same  for  moneys  borrowed 
by  said  cit}'  to  be  used  for  sewer  purposes.  Said  board  shall 
keep  a  record  of  all  such  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  issued,  dis- 
posed of,  or  pledged,  and  all  moneys  received  by  said  board 
shall  be  by  them  paid  over  to  the  treasurer  of  said  city. 

SEC.  3.  This  act  shall  not  take  effect  until  approved  by  a 
majority  of  the  legal  voters  of  said  city  present  at  a  meeting 
duly  warned  and  held  for  thai  purpose. 

Approved,  May  oth,  1893. 


SEWER  FUND  BONDS,  FOURTH  SERIES, 


Resolved  by  this  Assembly : 
(1895)  SECTION  1.     That  for  the  purpose  of  defraying  the  cost  and 

Sewer  bonds,  •      -j  i       •  ** 

$100,000.  expenses  incident  to  laying  out,  constructing,  repairing,  and  ex" 

tending  sewers  and  drains  in  the  city  of  New  Britain,  and  the 
increase  of  sewer  facilities  of  said  city,  and  for  said  purposes 
onl}',  the  said  city  of  New  Britain  is  hereb3"  authorized  and  em- 
powered to  issue  notes,  scrip,  or  certificate?  of  debt,  to  be  de- 
nominated on  the  face  thereof,  the  "Sewer  Fund  of  the  city  of 
New  Britain,  fourth  series,"  to  an  amount  not  exceeding  in  the 
whole  the  sum  of  one  hundred  thousand  ($100,000)  dollars, 
bearing  interest  at  no  greater  rate  than  five  per  cent,  per  annnm, 
the  principal  of  which  shall  be  payable  at  some  time  or  times, 
within  thirty  years  from  issuing  same,  and  the  amount  of  said 
notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt,  which  may  at  any  time  be 
issued,  together  with  the  times  of  payment  of  the  principal  and 
interest  thereof,  and  the  rate  of  interest,  shall  be  prescribed  by 
said  city  in  legul  meeting  for  that  purpose  called  and  held ;  and 
said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt  shall  be  signed  by 


NEW  BRITAIN  SEWER  BONDS.  85 

the  mayor  and  countersigned  by  the  treasurer  of  said  city,  and 
shall,  when  issued,  be  obligatory  on  said  city  and  the  inhabitants 
thereof  according  to  the  tenor  of  the  same. 

SEC.  2.     The  board  of  sewer  commissioners  of  said  city  shall  Duties  of 

*  sewer  coin- 

be  the  trustees  of  the  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt  issued  missioners. 

by  said  city  under  the  provisions  of  this  act,  shall  superintend 
the  issuing  of  the  same,  and  regulate  the  particular  form  there- 
of; and  after  the  same  or  any  part  thereof  shall  be  issued,  it 
may  sell  the  same  in  such  manner  and  on  such  terms  as  it  may  x 

deem  best,  but  no  bonds  shall  be  sold  at  less  than  par,  or  it  may 
pledge  the  same  for  moneys  borrowed  by  said  city  to  be  used 
for  sewer  purposes.  Said  board  shall  keep  a  record  of  all  such 
notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  issued,  disposed  of,  or  pledged,  and 
all  moneys  received  by  said  board  shall  be  by  them  paid  over  to 
the  treasurer. 

SEC.  3.     This  act  shall  not  take  effect  until  approved  by  a  Approval 

*        ntJCGSScir 

majority  of  the  legal  voters  of  said  cit}r  present  at  a  meeting  duly 
warned  and  held  for  that  purpose. 
Approved,  June  20th,  1895. 


AMENDMENTS    TO    CHARTER. 


AN  ACT  AMENDING  THE  CHARTER  OF  THE 
CITY  OF  NEW  BRITAIN. 


Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Reprtsentati'ces  in  General 
Assembly  convened : 

SECTION  i.  The  Common  Council  of  the  city  of  New  Britain  is 
hereby  authorized  to  provide  by  ordinance  for  the  placing  of  any 
or  all  electric  wires  now  or  hereafter  in  use  in  said  city  under- 
ground, by  the  parties  owning  or  operating  the  same,  when  in  the 
judgment  of  said  council  public  interests  require  the  same  to  be 
done,  under  such  restrictions  and  in  such  manner  as  said  council 
may  prescribe. 

SEC.  2.  Said  Common  Council  may  also  provide  penalties  for 
failure  of  any  person  or  persons  to  carry  out  all  reasonable  orders 
under  this  act  regarding  said  wires. 

SEC.  3.  The  city  of  New  Britain  is  hereby  authorized  also  to 
build,  construct,  and  maintain,  in  any  street  or  highway,  or  in  any 
part  of  any  street  or  highway  in  said  city,  main  and  lateral  con- 
duits, with  manholes  and  ventilating  shafts,  and  all  other  appurten- 
ances pertaining  to  conduits,  for  telephone,  telegraph,  fire  alarm, 
electric  light,  and  all  other  electric  wires  now  or  hereafter  used  in 
said  city,  and  to  cause  all  such  wires  to  be  placed  in  such  con- 
duits, and  to  charge  for  the  use  of  said  conduits  such  reasonable 
sum  by  way  of  annual  or  other  rental  as  the  Common  Council  of 
said  city  may  determine,  and  said  Common  Council  may  pass 
such  orders  and  ordinances  as  may  be  necessary  and  proper  to 
carry  into  effect  the  power  hereby  conferred.  The  sum  to  be 
charged  for  the  use  of  such  conduits  shall  be  determined  upon  the 
following  basis,  viz. :  A  reasonable  interest  upon  the  cost  of  con- 
struction, and  the  creation  and  maintenance  of  a  sinking  fund  for 


88  AMENDMENTS    TO    CHARTER. 

the  repair,  maintenance,  and  cost  of  conduits,  manholes,  ventilat- 
ing shafts,  and  appurtenances,  and  the  sum  charged  shall  be  appor- 
tioned among  the  users  of  said  conduits  according  to  the  number 
of  ducts  occupied  therein  by  the  parties  or  corporations  owning  or 
using  the  same.  When  the  amount  to  be  charged  to  any  corpora- 
tion or  other  party  by  way  of  annual  or  other  rental  has  been 
determined  by  the  Common  Council  of  said  city,  written  notice 
thereof,  signed  by  the  clerk  of  said  city,  shall  be  given  to  said 
parties  or  corporations,  and  if  any  such  party  or  corporation  shall 
claim  to  be  aggrieved  by  such  determination  of  such  sum  so  to  be 
charged  for  the  use  of  the  conduit,  such  party  or  corporation, 
within  thirty  days  after  notice  of  such  determination  of  the  same, 
may  appeal  by  petition  to  any  judge  of  the  superior  court,  or  any 
judge  of  the  court  of  common  pleas  for  Hartford  county  for  a  re- 
estimate  of  such  sum  ordered  to  be  paid  by  it ;  and  such  appeal 
shall  be  heard  by  said  judge  to  whom  the  same  shall  be  taken. 
As  many  of  the  parties  interested  in  said  matter  as  choose  to  do 
so  may  join  in  such  appeal,  and  when  separate  appeals  are  taken 
by  different  parties  concerning  said  estimate  of  said  sum  to  be 
charged  for  the  use  of  said  conduits,  all  of  said  appeals  shall  be 
heard  and  tried  as  one  cause.  Said  appeal  shall  be  by  a  suitable 
petition  in  writing,  setting  forth  the  action  of  said  Common  Coun- 
cil in  the  premises,  and  asking  for  a  re-estimate  of  the  sum  to  be 
charged  for  the  use  of  said  conduits,  with  a  citation  attached 
thereto,  signed  by  any  authority  authorized  to  sign  writs  returna- 
ble before  the  judge  to  whom  the  appeal  may  be  taken,  at  2  o'clock 
p.  m.,  two  weeks  from  the  date  of  said  petition,  and  said  citation 
shall  be  served  upon  the  clerk  of  said  city  at  least  six  days  before 
the  return  day  thereof.  If,  upon  hearing  upon  said  appeal,  said 
judge  shall  find  cause  to  alter  said  estimate,  then  he  shall  proceed 
to  re-estimate  the  sum  which  shall  be  charged  the  appellant  or  ap- 
pellants for  the  use  of  said  conduits,  and  such  re-estimate  shall  be 
binding  upon  the  city  of  New  Britain  and  upon  the  appellant  or 
appellants.  Such  judge  shall  have  for  the  purpose  of  disposing  of 
such  appeal  all  the  power  of  the  superior  court,  and  may  render 
judgment  thereon,  which  may  be  reviewed  by  the  supreme  court 
of  errors  on  appeal,  in  the  manner  provided  by  law,  and  may  tax 
costs  in  favor  of  either  party,  and  issue  execution  for  the  sum  to 


AMENDMENTS    TO    CHARTER.  89 

be  taxed,  as  by  civil  process  in  the  superior  court.  Said  judge 
shall,  when  the  proceedings  in  any  case  arising  under  this  act  are 
closed,  return  all  the  papers  connected  with  the  case  to  the  clerk 
of  said  city,  to  be  by  him  kept  on  file.  The  sura  to  be  charged 
for  the  use  of  such  conduits  upon  the  application  of  any  person  or 
corporation  owning  or  using  wires  therein,  shall  be  re-estimated  as 
of  the  first  day  of  January  in  each  year.  Any  person  or  corpora- 
tion having  the  right  to  put  wires  in  such  conduits,  may  put  the 
same  therein  at  any  time,  without  charge,  until  the  first  of  January 
of  the  ensuing  year. 

SEC.  4.  In  case  any  conduit  is  built  and  maintained  by  any 
party  or  corporation  within  said  city,  and  the  parties  or  corpora- 
tions who  are  to  use  said  conduits  in  connection  with  the  builders 
or  owners  thereof  cannot  agree  with  the  owner  upon  the  amount 
to  be  paid  for  such  joint  use  and  occupancy,  either  party  owning, 
using,  or  desiring  to  use  said  conduits,  may  apply  to  any  judge  of 
the  superior  court  or  a  judge  of  the  court  of  common  pleas  for 
Hartford  county,  by  a  suitable  petition  in  writing,  setting  forth 
the  facts  relating  to  the  ownership,  use,  and  proposed  use  of  said 
conduit,  and  that  the  parties  interested  are  unable  to  agree  as  to 
the  sum  to  be  paid  for  such  joint  use,  and  said  judge  shall  fix  said 
sum,  and  the  basis  for  his  action  shall  be  the  same  as  hereinbefore 
provided  for  the  use  of  conduits  owned  by  the  city.  Said  petition 
shall  be  accompanied  by  a  citation  attached  thereto,  signed  by 
any  authority  authorized  to  sign  writs  returnable  before  the  judge 
to  whom  it  is  brought,  at  2  o'clock  p.  m.,  two  weeks  from  the  date 
of  said  petition,  and  said  citation  shall  be  served  upon  all  parties 
interested  at  least  six  days  before  the  return  day  thereof.  As 
many  parties  interested  as  desire  to  do  so  may  join  in  one  petition, 
and,  if  there  are  separate  petitions  pending  before  the  same  judge 
at  the  same  time,  they  may  be  heard  and  tried  as  one  cause,  and 
he  shall  have  the  same  power  as  he  would  have  in  case  of  appeals, 
and  the  right  of  the  parties  to  have  his  decision  reviewed  shall  be 
the  same  as  hereinbefore  provided. 

SEC.  5.  For  the  purpose  of  defraying  the  costs  and  expenses 
incident  to  the  construction,  completion,  and  maintenance,  repairs, 
and  extension  of  conduits,  manholes,  ventilating  shafts,  and  appur- 
tenances authorized  to  be  built  by  said  city  by  this  amendment, 


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said  city  of  New  Britain  is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to 
issue  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt,  to  be  denominated  on  the 
face  thereof,  "The  subway  fund  of  the  city  of  New  Britain,  first 
series,"  to  an  amount  not  exceeding  in  the  whole  the  sum  of  fifty 
thousand  dollars,  bearing  interest  at  no  greater  rate  than  five  per 
cent,  per  annum,  the  principal  of  which  shall  be  payable  at  some 
certain  time  or  times  within  thirty  years  from  issuing  the  same, 
and  the  amount  of  said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  which  may  at 
any  time  be  issued,  together  with  times  of  payment  of  the  princi- 
pal and  interest  thereof,  and  the  rate  of  interest,  shall  be  subscribed 
by  said  city  in  legal  meeting  for  that  purpose  called  and  held,  and 
said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  shall  be  signed  by  the  mayor  and 
countersigned  by  the  treasurer  of  said  city,  and  shall,  when  issued, 
be  obligatory  on  said  city  and  the  inhabitants  thereof  according  to 
the  tenor  of  the  same. 

SEC.  6.  Nothing  in  this  resolution  contained  shall  empower  the 
Common  Council  of  said  city  to  cause  the  trolley  wires  of  the  street 
railway  in  said  city  or  high  potential  wires,  that  is  to  say  electric 
wires  carrying  five  hundred  volts,  or  over,  or  wires  used  in  operat- 
ing signals  on  any  railroad,  or  wires  used  in  connection  with  the 
operation  of  any  railroad  by  means  of  electricity  upon  a  third  rail 
system,  to  be  placed  underground. 

SEC.  7.  Whenever  a  meeting  of  the  Common  Council  shall  be 
called  for  the  purpose  of  filling  any  vacancy,  as  provided  in  sec- 
tion five  of  the  present  charter  of  the  city  of  New  Britain,  written 
notice  of  said  meeting,  signed  by  the  clerk  of  said  city,  and  prop- 
erly addressed,  shall  be  mailed  to  each  member  of  said  Common 
Council  by  said  clerk,  at  least  three  days  before  the  time  of  said 
meeting. 

SEC.  8.  Whenever  an  appeal  shall  be  taken,  as  provided  in  sec- 
tion 56  of  the  present  charter  of  said  city,  such  appeal  shall  sus- 
pend the  payment  of  damages  to  all  parties  interested,  as  well  as 
the  payment  of  benefits,  until  said  appeal  shall  be  finally  deter- 
mined, and  upon  the  determination  of  said  appeal,  said  damages 
shall  become  immediately  due  and  payable  from  said  city. 

SEC.  9.  All  acts  and  parts  of  acts  inconsistent  with  the  pro- 
visions of  this  act  are  hereby  repealed. 

SEC.  10.     This  act  shall  take  effect  from  its  passage. 

Approved  June  20,   1899. 


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HOUSE   JOINT    RESOLUTION   AUTHORIZING   THE 
CITY  OF  NEW  BRITAIN  TO  ISSUE  BONDS. 


Resolved  by  this  Assembly  : 

SECTION  i.  That  the  city  of  New  Britain  be  and  is  hereby 
authorized  and  empowered  to  issue  bonds,  notes,  scrip,  or  certifi- 
cates of  debt,  to  be  denominated  on  the  face  thereof  the  Sewer  Fund 
of  the  City  of  New  Britain,  to  an  amount  not  exceeding  in  the 
whole  the  sum  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars,  bearing 
interest  at  no  greater  rate  than  four  per  cent,  per  annum,  the  prin- 
cipal of  which  shall  be  payable  at  some  certain  time  within  twenty- 
five  years  from  issuing  the  same,  and  the  amount  of  said  bonds, 
notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  which  may  at  any  time  be  issued, 
together  with  the  times  of  payment  of  the  principal  and  interest 
thereof,  and  the  rate  of  interest,  shall  be  prescribed  by  said  city  in 
legal  meeting  for  that  purpose  called  and  held,  and  said  bonds, 
notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  shall  be  signed  by  the  mayor  and 
countersigned  by  the  treasurer  of  said  city,  and  shall  when  issued 
be  obligatory  on  said  city  and  the  inhabitants  thereof,  according 
to  the  tenor  of  the  same.  Said  bonds,  note,  scrip,  or  certificates 
of  debt,  or  the  funds  raised  thereon,  shall  be  used  solely  in  ex- 
change for,  or  in  purchasing  or  discharging  evidences  of  debt 
heretofore  issued  by  said  city  of  New  Britain,  and  which  become 
due  and  payable  July  i,  1899,  to  the  amount  of  one  hundred  and 
fifty  thousand  dollars.  And  any  income  derived  from  the  sale  of 
said  bonds,  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt  in  excess  of  said 
one  hundred  and  fifty  thousand  dollars,  shall  be  paid  into  the 
treasury  of  said  city  and  credited  to  the  account  of  construction 
and  repairs  of  sewers  and  drains. 

SEC.  2.  This  resolution,  when  approved  by  a  majority  of  the 
legal  voters  of  said  city  present  at  a  meeting  duly  warned  and  held 
for  that  purpose,  shall  be  obligatory  upon  said  city  and  upon  the 
inhabitants  thereof,  according  to  the  tenor  and  purport  of  the  same. 

Approved  April  n,  1899. 


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AN  ACT  AMENDING  THE  CHARTER  OF   THE  CITY  OF 
NEW  BRITAIN. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  in  General 
Assembly  convened : 

The  Common  Council  of  the  city  of  New  Britain,  in  addition  to 
the  powers  heretofore  conferred  upon  it,  shall  also  have  the  power 
to  make  such  orders  or  ordinances  as  it  shall  see  fit  in  relation  to 
licensing  and  regulating,  within  the  limits  of  said  city,  peddling, 
buying,  selling,  and  dealing  in  junk,  old  metals,  rags,  glass,  or 
second-hand  articles,  and  to  make  the  violation  of  such  ordinances 
a  misdemeanor  to  be  prosecuted  before  the  police  court  of  said 
city,  and  to  prescribe  penalties  for  such  violation. 

Approved,  May  29,  1901. 


AN    ACT    AUTHORIZING    THE  CITY  OF  NEW  BRITAIN 
TO  ISSUE  BONDS  FOR  ITS  WATER  SUPPLY. 

Resolved  by  this  Assembly  : 

SECTION  i.  That  for  the  purpose  of  defraying  the  cost  and 
expense  of  improving  and  increasing  the  water  supply  of  the  city 
of  New  Britain,  and  of  fully  and  completely  carrying  out  the  pro- 
visions of  a  resolution  concerning  the  water  supply  of  New  Britain 
and  authorizing  the  issue  of  bonds  by  the  city,  approved  June  10, 
1897,  and  for  the  purpose  of  doing  all  and  singular  the  acts  and 
things  and  making  the  improvements  mentioned  in  section  two  of 
said  resolution  and  defraying  the  cost  and  expense  thereof,  said 
city  of  New  Britain  is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to  issue 
notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt  in  addition  to  the  amount- 
named  in  said  section  two  of  said  resolution  to  a  further  amount, 
not  exceeding  seventy-five  thousand  dollars,  which  shall  be  denom- 
inated on  their  face  Water  Fund  of  the  City  of  New  Britain,  Eighth 
Series,  and  shall  in  all  respects  be  issued  in  conformity  to  the  pro- 
visions of  a  resolution  authorizing  the  city  of  New  Britain  to  issue 
additional  water  bonds,  approved  July  i,  1873. 


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SEC.  2.  The  said  issue  of  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt  to 
said  amount  not  exceeding  seventy-five  thousand  dollars  is  hereby 
authorized  in  addition  to  all  other  sums  heretofore  authorized  to 
be  issued  by  said  city  or  the  water  commissioners  thereof. 

SEC.  3.  The  provisions  of  a  resolution  authorizing  the  city  of 
New  Britain  to  redeem  its  outstanding  bonds  by  the  issue  of  new 
bonds,  approved  March  10,  1893,  shall  apply  to  the  bonds,  notes, 
or  certificates  of  debt  to  be  issued  under  the  provisions  of  this 
resolution. 

SEC.  4.  This  resolution  shall  not  take  effect  until  approved  by 
a  majority  of  the  legal  voters  of  said  city  present  at  a  meeting 
duly  warned  for  that  purpose. 

Approved,  June  4,  1901. 


AN    ACT    AMENDING    THE    CHARTER    OF    THE    CITY 

OF  NEW  BRITAIN  CONCERNING    THE    SEWAGE 

OF    THE    CITY. 

Resolved  by  this  Assembly  : 

SECTION  i.  That  the  Common  Council  of  the  city  of  New  Britain 
shall  have  power  upon  recommendation  of  the  board  of  sewer  com- 
missioners of  said  city,  to  lay  out,  build,  construct,  and  repair 
drains,  conduits  and  sewers,  or  a  system  of  sewerage,  wherever  it 
may  deem  the  same  necessary,  through  or  along  any  street,  high- 
way, or  public  or  private  grounds  in  said  city,  and  if,  in  the  judg- 
ment of  said  Common  Council  necessary  or  expedient,  to  extend, 
build,  and  construct  said  drains  and  sewers,  or  a  system  of  sewer- 
age, and  the  outlet  or  outlets  of  said  system,  and  the  connections 
thereof,  beyond  the  limits  of  said  city,  in  or  through  the  towns  of 
New  Britain,  Newington  and  Berlin,  or  in  or  through  either  of  said 
towns,  and  in,  through,  over,  and  upon  the  streets,  highways,  and 
public  and  private  lands  in  any  of  said  towns,  and  under  the  right 
of  way  or  rights  of  way  of  any  railroad  in  any  of  said  towns,  and 
in  said  city  or  towns,  or  either  or  any  of  them,  except  as  herein- 
after provided,  for  the  disposal  of  sewage  and  sewerage  of  said 
city,  and  of  the  inhabitants  and  corporations  therein,  to  construct, 


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operate  and  maintain  sewer  works  and  sewer  beds  for  filtration  and 
other  purposes  connected  with  the  disposal  of  the  sewage  and  sew- 
erage of  said  city,  and  of  the  inhabitants  and  corporations  therein, 
and  for  the  purposes  above  named,  or  any  of  them,  and  for  the 
purpose  of  improving  and  utilizing  lands  and  estate  acquired  or  to 
be  acquired  for  any  of  said  purposes,  the  said  city  of  New  Britain 
may  take  and  acquire  by  purchase  or  otherwise  any  lands  in  fee, 
and  any  rights  or  easements  in  lands,  water  courses,  or  ways, 
within  the  limits  of  said  city  and  towns,  or  either  or  any  of  them, 
that  said  Common  Council  may  deem  necessary,  and  said  Com- 
mon Council  may  cause  all  roof,  storm,  and  ground  water,  as  well 
as  all  acids,  unless  neutralized  to  the  satisfaction  and  acceptance 
of  the  board  of  sewer  commissioners,  to  be  separated  from  house 
or  crude  sewage,  and  from  the  system  that  may  be  adopted  for  the 
carrying  of  such  sewage  ;  provided,  that  no  such  sewer  works  or 
sewer  beds  other  than  drains,  conduits,  sewers,  and  necessary 
appurtenances  for  carrying  sewage  and  sewerage,  shall  be  estab- 
lished outside  the  limits  of  said  town  of  New  Britain,  excepting  in 
the  section  of  country  in  the  town  of  Berlin  bounded  north  by  the 
Berlin  town  line,  east  by  the  north  and  south  highway  next  east  of 
Christian  lane,  and  the  Hartford  and  New  Haven  turnpike,  south 
by  the  Mattabeset  river  and  land  of  Gustave  Wahl,  and  west  by 
Christian  lane.  The  only  routes  to  be  followed  in  conducting 
sewage  and  sewerage  from  the  city  and  town  of  New  Britain  to  the 
filtration  beds  and  sewer  works  to  be  established  under  this,  resolu- 
tion, so  far  as  said  routes  lie  outside  of  the  town  of  New  Britain, 
are  described  as  follows,  to  wit :  The  route  leading  from  the  Piper 
Brook  outfall  in  the  city  of  New  Britain,  after  it  leaves  the  New 
Britain  town  line,  passes  through  the  lands  of  William  Richards, 
H.  Fields,  J.  G.  Peterson,  J.  W.  Holmes,  and  W.  L.  Davis,  in  the 
town  of  Newington,  east  of  the  highway  known  as  Christian  lane, 
and  through  the  lands  of  W.  L.  Davis,  J.  Sauter,  Frederick  Spletts- 
toeszer,  August  Splettstoeszer,  passing  under  the  Middletown  branch 
of  the  New  York,  New  Haven  and  Hartford  Railroad  Company's 
tracks,  and  crossing  the  highway  known  as  the  Beckley  Quarter 
road,  and  through  lands  of  Charles  Leigey,  all  in  the  town  of 
Berlin.  The  route  leading  from  the  Glen  street  outfall  in  the  city 
of  New  Britain,  after  it  leaves  the  New  Britain  town  line,  passes 


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through  lands  of  Joseph  Towers,  estate  of  Patrick  Devitt,  deceased, 
and  under  the  Berlin  branch  of  the  New  York,  New  Haven  and 
Hartford  Railroad  Company  and,  through  the  farms  of  Theodore 
A.  Stanley  and  Charles  Ellis  in  the  town  of  Berlin  near  the  town 
line  of  New  Britain  ;  also  through  lands  of  J.  W.  Holmes  and  W. 
L.  Davis  in  the  town  of  Newington,  and  through  lands  of  John 
Sauter,  Frederick  Splettstoeszer  and  August  Splettstoeszer,  and 
passing  under  the  Middletown  branch  of  the  New  York,  New 
Haven  and  Hartford  Railroad  Company,  and  crossing  the  high- 
way known  as  the  Beckley  Quarter  road,  and  through  lands  of 
Charles  Leigey,  all  in  the  town  of  Berlin.  As  an  alternative  route 
from  both  said  outfalls,  after  said  routes  come  together  at  Christian 
lane  near  the  New  Britain  town  line,  the  route  may  follow  in 
Christian  lane  southerly  to  the  north  line  of  John  Sauter's  farm, 
thence  through  Sauter's  farm  to  the  routes  above  described  on  said 
Sauter's  farm,  and  thence  to  the  terminus  of  said  route  on  land  of 
Charles  Leigey,  it  shall  be  as  first  above  described. 

SEC.  2.  Whenever  under  the  provisions  of  this  resolution  it 
shall  in  the  judgment  of  said  Common  Council  become  necessary 
or  expedient  for  said  city  to  take  and  acquire  any  land  or  rights  or 
easements  in  lands,  water  courses,  or  ways  within  the  limits  of 
said  city  or  town  of  New  Britain  or  the  towns  of  Berlin  and  New- 
ington, or  either  of  them,  the  Common  Council  of  said  city  shall 
appoint  a  committee  to  prepare  a  descriptive  survey  of  the  work 
contemplated  being  done  therewith  or  thereupon,  and  to  agree  with 
the  parties  as  to  the  damages  on  account  of  such  work,  and  the 
agreement  made  by  them,  if  any,  having  been  ratified  by  said 
Common  Council,  and  the  sums  agreed  upon  as  damages  having 
been  paid  to  the  parties  entitled  thereto,  or  deposited  to  their 
credit  in  the  city  treasury,  said  city  may  go  on  to  the  completion 
of  said  improvement  and  do  the  acts  necessary  or  convenient  for 
that  purpose  ;  but  if  said  Common  Council  shall  be  unable  to 
agree  with  the  parties  interested  as  to  the  damages  aforesaid,  any 
judge  of  the  superior  court  or  the  supreme  court  of  errors  may,  on 
application  of  said  city  or  of  any  party  in  interest,  after  causing 
such  notice  to  be  given  of  the  pendency  of  such  application  as  he 
shall  deem  just  and  reasonable,  appoint  three  judicious  and  dis- 
interested freeholders  of  the  county  of  Hartford  to  estimate  such 


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damages,  and  said  committee  having  been  duly  sworn  and  having 
given  notice  of  the  time  and  place  of  its  meeting  for  the  purpose 
aforesaid,  in  the  manner  prescribed  by  said  judge,  shall  meet  at 
the  time  and  place  designated,  and  having  heard  all  parties  in 
interest  who  shall  appear  before  it,  shall  determine  the  amount  of 
the  damage  sustained  by  any  and  all  persons  or  corporations  whose 
lands,  water  courses,  or  ways,  or  rights  or  easements  therein,  shall 
have  been  taken  by  said  city  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  this 
resolution,  and  in  determining  said  damages  said  committee  may 
take  into  account  the  special  benefits  received  by  said  parties. 
Thereupon  said  committee  shall  report  in  writing  to  the  said  judge, 
who  may  confirm,  correct,  or  set  aside  said  report  as  he  may  deem 
just,  in  which  latter  case,  said  committee,  or  a  new  one  to  be  then 
appointed  by  said  judge,  shall  proceed  as  'before,  and  said  report 
being  finally  accepted  by  said  judge  shall  be  recorded  by  the  clerk 
of  the  superior  court  for  Hartford  county,  and  the  award  of 
damages  therein  contained  shall  be  final  between  the  parties  ;  all 
papers  connected  with  said  case,  by  whomsoever  held,  shall  then 
be  delivered  to  the  clerk  of  the  city  of  New  Britain,  who  shall  keep 
the  same  on  file  for  public  inspection,  and  said  damages  being 
paid  or  deposited  as  before  provided,  said  city  may  proceed  to 
complete  said  public  improvement  and  do  all  acts  necessary  or 
convenient  for  that  purpose.  Nothing  contained  in  this  resolution 
shall  be  construed  as  absolving  said  city  from  liability  to  any  per- 
son or  corporation  for  damages  which  may  be  occasioned  to  the 
person  or  property  of  such  person  or  corporation  in  addition  to 
the  damages  agreed  upon  or  ascertained  in  the  manner  hereinbe- 
fore provided,  by  reason  of  the  use  made  by  said  city  of  any  land 
or  rights  or  easements  in  land,  water  courses,  or  ways  acquired  by 
said  city  under  the  authority  of  this  resolution. 

SEC.  3.  Said  Common  Council  shall  have  power  to  assess  such 
portions  as  it  may  deem  reasonable  of  the  cost  of  the  public  works 
and  improvements  above  described,  upon  the  property  within  the 
limits  of  said  city  (not  having  already  paid  a  regular  assessment 
for  sewer  benefits)  for  the  carrying  off  of  the  sewage,  surface,  or 
other  drainage  for  which  said  sewer,  drain,  or  improvement  may 
be  constructed,  or  which  may  be  in  any  way  improved  or  benefited 
thereby,  and  the  sum  so  assessed  shall  be  a  lien  upon  the  said 


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property  subject  to  the  provisions  of  section  fifty-three  of  the 
present  charter  of  said  city,  as  to  continuance,  foreclosure,  collec- 
tion, and  release  of  the  same,  and  subject  also  to  all  the  other 
provisions  of  said  section ;  and  in  assessing  such  benefits,  said 
Common  Council  shall  not  be  limited  to  the  property  abutting  on 
said  improvement,  but  benefits  may  be  assessed  upon  any  person 
or  corporation  whose  property  is  benefited  by  the  construction  of 
such  sewer,  drain,  or  improvement.  Such  assessments  shall  be 
made  to  the  same  extent,  with  the  same  limitations,  and  in  the 
same  manner  as  sewer  assessments  are  now  made  under  the  charter 
of  said  city. 

SEC.  4.  When  the  majority  of  the  property  owners  on  any  street 
outside  of  the  city  limits  and  within  the  town  of  New  Britain  shall 
bring  a  petition  to  the  Common  Council  of  said  city  for  the  con- 
struction or  extension  of  sewers  in  such  street,  said  Common 
Council  may  order  the  construction  or  extension  of  such  sewer, 
and  assessments  for  benefits  therefore  may  be  made  upon  any 
person  or  corporation  whose  property  is  benefited  by  the  construc- 
tion or  extension  of  the  same,  to  the  same  extent  and  in  the  same 
manner  as  if  said  sewer  were  constructed  upon  a  street  within  the 
limits  of  said  city,  and  said  Common  Council  may,  in  addition  to 
such  assessments,  require  the  petitioners  for  such  sewer  to  pay,  or 
give  a  satisfactory  bond,  payable  to  said  city,  to  secure  the  pay- 
ment of  the  expenses  to  which 'the  city  shall  be  put  in  making 
maps,  surveys  and  assessments  for  said  sewer  and  the  construction 
and  extension  of  the  same,  and  may  require  the  payment  of  an  ad- 
ditional sum  for  the  privilege  of  making  connections  with  said 
sewer. 

SEC.  5.  For  the  purpose  of  defraying  the  costs  and  expenses 
incurred  under  the  provisions  of  this  resolution  of  every  name  and 
nature,  said  city  of  New  Britain  is  hereby  authorized  and  em- 
powered to  issue  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt,  to  be  denom- 
inated on  the  face  thereof,  "The  Sewer  Fund  of  the  City  of  New 
Britain,  Sixth  Series,"  to  an  amount  not  exceeding  in  the  whole  the 
sum  of  three  hundred  thousand  dollars,  bearing  interest  at  no 
grater  rate  than  five  per  centum  per  annum,  the  principal  of  which 
shall  be  payable  at  some  certain  time  or  times  within  thirty  years 
from  issuing  the  same,  and  the  amount  of  said  notes,  scrip,  or 


98  AMENDMENTS    TO    CHARTER. 

certificates,  which  may  at  any  time  be  issued,  together  with  times 
of  payment  of  the  principal  and  interest  thereof,  and  the  rate  of 
interest,  shall  be  prescribed  by  said  city  in  legal  meeting  for  that 
purpose  called  and  held,  and  said  notes,  scrip,  or  certificates, 
shall  be  signed  by  the  mayor,  and  countersigned  by  the  treasurer 
of  said  city,  and  shall,  when  issued,  be  obligatory  on  said  city 
and  the  inhabitants  thereof,  according  to  the  tenor  of  the  same. 

SEC.  6.  The  police  court  of  the  city  of  New  Britain  shall  have 
the  same  authority  over  the  lands,  property,  and  estate  of  said 
city  owned  or  used  by  it  under  the  provisions  of  this  resolution, 
and  within  a  distance  of  one  hundred  rods  from  said  property  and 
estate,  that  it  now  has  in  part  of  the  town  of  Southington  covered 
by  the  waters  of  Shuttle  Meadow  lake,  and  all  officers  authorized 
Jo  serve  process  issued  by  and  returnable  to  said  police  court 
shall  have  the  same  power  to  arrest  any  person  or  persons  upon 
said  property  or  estate,  or  within  one  hundred  rods  therefrom,  as 
such  officers  have  now  in  the  town  of  Southington  under  section 
eighty-seven  of  the  charter  of  said  city,  but  nothing  herein  con- 
tained shall  affect  the  jurisdiction  of  grand  jurors  or  other  inform- 
ing officers  of  the  town  or  towns  within  which  said  property  or 
estate  is  situated,  over  crimes,  offences,  and  misdemeanors,  com- 
mitted in  any  part  of  said  town  or  towns. 

SEC.  7.  Said  board  of  sewer  commissioners  is  authorized  and 
empowered  to  attend  to  the  construction,  supervision,  care,  and 
management  of  all  public  and  private  drains  heretofore  built  by 
said  city,  or  built  under  the  provisions  of  this  resolution,  as  well 
as  all  filter  beds  and  sewer  works  and  all  connections  with  such 
public  sewers  or  drains,  or  any  of  the  sewer  systems  of  said  city, 
and  shall  have  full  charge  of  the  use  made  or  to  be  made  of  said 
public  or  private  sewers  or  drains  and  filter  beds  and  sewer  works, 
and  may  by  themselves  and  their  agents  enter  into  or  upon  any 
and  all  'property  or  estate  connected  in  any  way  with  the  public 
sewers  or  drains  to  investigate  and  examine  such  connections,  and 
shall  have  authority  to  order  the  discontinuance  of  any  improper 
use  of  said  sewers,  drains,  or  sewer  connections,  and  of  any 
use  not  conforming  to  the  regulations  adopted  by  said 
board.  Said  sewer  commissioners  shall  have  full  authority  over 
the  use  to  be  made  of.  all  connections,  and  shall  prepare  a  set  of 


AMENDMENTS    TO    CHARTER.  99 

rules,  regulations,  and  requirements  covering  the  use  and  con- 
struction of  all  branches  and  connections,  private  or  public,  that 
are  now  made  or  are  to  be  made  to  said  sewer  system,  and  may 
exercise  any  additional  powers  conferred  upon  them  by  said  Com- 
mon Council;  they  shall  keep  a  record  of  their  official  proceed- 
ings, and  shall  render  a  report  of  their  doings  to  said  Common 
Council  annually  and  oftener  if  by  said  Common  Council  request- 
ed, including  a  general  exhibit  of  the  state  of  the  public  works, 
and  account  of  sums  required  to  be  expended  therefor,  and  such 
other  matters  or  information  as  may  be  called  for  by  said  Com- 
mon Council;  provided,  that  said  board  shall  always  be  under  the 
direction  of  the  Common  Council  of  said  city. 
Approved,  June  17,  1901. 


AMENDING    THE    CHARTER    OF   THE    CITY    OF 
NEW  BRITAIN  CONCERNING  THE  SUBWAY. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  aud  House  of  Representatives  in  General 
Assembly  convened: 

SECTION  i.  Section  five  of  the  act  amending  the  charter  of  the 
city  of  New  Britain,  approved  June  20,  1899,.  is  hereby  amended 
by  striking  out  the  word  "fifty"  in  the  eighth  line  of  said  section  and 
substituting  in  lieu  thereof  the  word  "thirty-six,"  and  no  bonds 
shall  be  issued  by  said  city  under  the  provisions  of  said  act  ex- 
ceeding the  sum  of  thirty-six  thousand  dollars  which  are  now  out- 
standing. 

SEC.  2.  Section  six  of  said  act  is  hereby  amended  by  striking 
out  in  the  third  and  fourth  lines  thereof  the  words  "or  high  poten- 
tial wires,  that  is  to  say,  electric  wires  carrying  five  hundred  volts 
or  over." 

SEC.  3.  The  rental  derived  by  said  city  for  the  use  of  the  con- 
duits already  constructed,  and  the  money  on  hand  and  unexpend- 
ed derived  from  the  sale  of  bonds  authorized  by  said  act,  shall  be 
used  only  for  the  maintenance,  repair,  and  for  reasonable  supervis- 
ion of  said  conduits,  and  for  providing  a  sinking  fund  for  the  pay- 
ment of  the  bonds  already  issued  for  such  construction.  No  other 
conduits  shall  be  constructed  by  said  city  without  further  authori- 
ty of  the  general  assembly  obtained  for  that  purpose. 

SEC.  4.     This  act  shall  take  effect  from  its  passage. 
Approved,  June  17,  1901. 


100  AMENDMENTS    TO     CHARTER. 


AN    ACT    AMENDING    AN    ACT    AMENDING 
THE    CHARTER    OF   THE    CITY    OF    NEW    BRITAIN. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  in  General 
Assembly  convened: 

SECTION  i.  Section  one  of  an  act  authorizing  the  city  of  New 
Britain  to  increase  its  water  supply  and  issue  additional  bonds 
therefor,  approved  May  n,  1903,  is  hereby  amended  to  read  as 
follows:  The  city  of  New  Britain,  a  municipal  corporation  locat- 
ed within  the  county  of  Hartford  in  this  state,  for  the  purpose  of 
increasing  its  water  supply,  is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered 
to  acquire  and  take,  by  purchase  or  otherwise,  and  hold,  the 
waters,  or  so  much  thereof  as  may  in  the  opinion  of  the  board  of 
water  commissioners  of  said  city  be  necessary,  of  the  North 
Branch,  so  called,  of  the  Pequabuck  river,  and  any  or  all  of  its 
tributaries,  together  with  any  and  all  water  rights  connected  there- 
with, whether  owned  by  any  municipal,  public,  or  private  water 
company,  corporation,  or  otherwise,  at  any  point  or  points  on  said 
North  Branch  and  said  tributaries  within  the  town  of  Burlington 
in  this  state  and  above  the  road  known  as  the  Old  Turnpike  con- 
necting the  borough  of  Bristol  and  the  village  of  Farmington,  and, 
for  the  purpose  of  holding,  storing,  purifying,  or  conveying  the 
waters  aforesaid,  may  in  like  manner  acquire  and  take  any  or  all 
lands,  rights  of  way,  easements,  and  other  property  within  the 
limits  of  the  towns  of  Burlington,  Bristol,  Plainville,  Southington 
and  New  Britain,  whether  owned  by  any  municipal,  public,  or 
private  water  company,  corporation,  or  otherwise,  which  may  in 
the  opinion  of  said  board  be  necessary,  and  may  erect  on  any 
lands  so  acquired  and  taken,  proper  dams,  reservoirs,  fixtures, 
structures,  and  other  appliances,  and  make  such  excavations  and 
provide  such  other  means  as  may  in  the  opinion  of  said  board  be 
necessary  or  advisable  for  the  purpose  of  holding  and  conveying 
said  waters  to  and  into  Shuttle  Meadow  lake,  so  called,  in  said 
town  of  Southington,  or  to  and  into  the  said  city  of  New  Britain, 
and  may  construct  and  lay  down  such  conduits,  canals,  pipes,  or 


AMENDMENTS    TO    CHARTER.  101 

other  works  under,  through,  or  over  any  lands,  water  courses, 
railroads,  and  public  or  private  ways,  as  may  in  the  opinion  of 
said  board  be  necessary  and  convenient  for  the  use  of  said  city  ; 
and,  for  the  purpose  of  carrying  out  the  provisions  and  objects  of 
this  act,  may  dig  up  any  such  lands  and  rights  of  way,  and,  under 
the  direction  of  the  board  of  selectmen  of  the  town  in  which  the 
work  is  located,  may  enter  upon  and  dig  up  any  such  public  ways 
in  said  town  in  such  manner  as  to  cause  the  least  hindrance  to 
public  travel,  and  shall  hold  the  town  in  which  such  ways  are 
located  harmless  from  all  liabilities  to  parties  claiming  damages 
from  any  cause  resulting  from  the  acts  of  said  city.  The  said 
city  shall  pay  all  damages  sustained  by  any  person  or  corporation 
in  property  by  the  taking  of  any  land,  right  of  way,  water,  water 
source,  water  right,  or  easement,  or  any  other  thing  done  by  said 
city  under  the  authority  of  this  act.  Said  city,  or  any  person  or 
corporation  entitled  to  damages  as  aforesaid  under  this  act  who 
fails  to  agree  with  said  city  as  to  the  amount  of  damages  sustained, 
may  have  the  damages  assessed  and  determined  in  the  manner 
provided  in  the  fifth  section  of  "An  Act  to  Supply  the  Borough  of 
New  Britain  with  Water  for  Public  and  Private  Purposes,"  approved 
May  26,  1857.  Nothing  herein  contained  shall  be  so  construed  as 
to  give  to  the  city  of  New  Britain  the  right  to  take  or  appropriate 
any  water,  water  source,  water  supply,  or  water  right,  from  or 
within  the  town  of  Southington. 

SEC.  2.  For  the  purposes  of  defraying  the  costs  and  expenses 
of  increasing  the  water  supply  of  said  city  and  fully  carrying  out 
the  purposes  of  this  act,  said  city  is  hereby  authorized  to  issue 
bonds,  notes,  or  certificates  of  debt,  to  be  denominated  on  the 
face  thereof  "Water  Fund  of  the  City  of  New  Britain,  ninth 
series,"  to  an  amount  not  exceeding  in  the  aggregate  the  sum  of 
three  hundred  thousand  dollars,  which  bonds  shall  in  all  respects 
be  issued  in  conformity  to  the  provisions  of  a  resolution  authoriz- 
ing the  city  of  New  Britain  to  issue  additional  water  bonds, 
approved  July  i,  1873,  excepting  that  the  rate  of  interest  upon 
such  bonds,  notes,  or  certificates  of  debt  shall  not  exceed  five  per 
cent,  per  annum,  and  subject  further  to  the  provisions  of  a  resolu- 
tion authorizing  the  city  of  New  Britain  to  redeem  its  outstanding 
bonds  by  the  issue  of  new  bonds,  approved  March  10,  1893. 


102  AMENDMENTS    TO    CHARTER. 

SEC.  3.  All  the  rights  granted  to  said  city  by  this  act  and  not 
otherwise  specifically  provided  for  herein  or  in  existing  laws  shall 
be  exercised  by  said  board  of  water  commissioners  or  their  suc- 
cessors in  authority  acting  in  behalf  of  said  city. 

SEC.  4.  This  act  shall  take  effect  when  approved  by  a  majority 
of  the  legal  voters  of  said  city  present  and  voting  at  a  meeting 
duly  warned  and  held  for  that  purpose. 

Approved,  May  u,  1903. 


AN    ACT    AMENDING    THE    CHARTER    OF    THE 
CITY    Of    NEW    BRITAIN. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  in  Gen- 
eral Assembly  convened: 

Section  twenty-three  of  the  act  revising  and  amending  the 
charter  of  the  city  of  New  Britain,  approved  June  6,  1895,  is 
hereby  amended  by  adding  after  the  word  "  council  "  in  the  eighty- 
fifth  line  of  said  section  the  words  "and  the  chairman  of  the  street 
committee,"  so  that  the  paragraph  of  said  section  containing  said 
line  when  amended  shall  read  as  follows:  Provided,  that  no 
alderman  or  councilman  shall  receive  any  fee,  salary,  compensa- 
tion, or  reward  for  services  as  such  alderman  or  councilman, 
except  the  president  pro  tempore  of  the  common  council  and  the 
chairman  of  the  street  committee,  until  the  said  city  shall  have  a 
population  of  thirty  thousand  inhabitants. 

Approved,  June  9,  1903. 


CHARTER  INDEX. 


104  CHARTER   INDEX. 


CHARTER  INDEX, 


Accounts,  city,  power  of  common  council,  relative  to  mode 

of  keeping,  22 
Alderman,  election  and  term  of  office,  12 
to  be  resident  of  ward,      -  12 
vacancies  filled  by  common  council,       -  12 
senior  defined,  18 
consent    of,    in  appointing  and  removing  mem- 
bers of  the  board  of  street  commissioners,         33,  34 
to  sign  return  of  names  of  jurors,      -  43 
to  be  present  at  drawing  of  names  of  jurors,  43 
and    selectmen,    to    determine    highway  appro- 
priations, 32 
Amusements,  powers  of  council  in  relation  to,  21 
Appeals,  see  city  and  police  court,  assessments. 
Appraisers,  of  damages  and  benefits,  board   of   street  com- 
missioners, 33 
Appropriations,  for  city  expenses,  city  meeting  to  approve 

estimates  of,  26 

estimates  of,  to1  be  published,  26 

how  made,  -.  26 

not  to  be  exceeded,  27 

for  highways,  32 

Arrests,  at  Shuttle  Meadow,  who  may  make,   -  49 

Assessment,    of   damages    or   compensation    for   land    for 

water-works,  65 
of  damages  and  benefits    for    land    for    streets, 

building  lines,  sewers,  &c.,  33,  34,  35 

disposal  of,   by  council,  .         .  35 

of  damages,  how  paid,  36 

to  be  deposited  with  treasurer,  .  36 

of  damages  and  benefits  in  taking  stream,  28 


CHARTER    INDEX.  105 

Assessment,  of  benefits,  limit  of  amount,  35 

names  of  persons  assessed,   and  amounts,   how 

published,  36 

a  lien  on  land,  takes  precedence  of  other  lien,  27,  31,  37 
collected  how,  29,  37 

how  continued  in  case  of  appeal,  37 

appeals    for    re-assessment,   when,   how,  and  to 

whom  taken,  and  proceedings  ia,  38,  39 

appeals,  heard  by  whom,        -  38 

sewer,    by    whom  made,   limit  of  amount,   and 

when  collectible,  -     27,  36,  37 

Assistant  city  clerk,  appointment  and  duties,       .  18 

Assistant  judge  of  city  and  police  court,  appointment,  term 

of  office  and  qualification  of,  40,  44 

powers  and  duties  of,    -  40,  44 

salary  of,  42 

not  disqualified  in  penal  actions,  45 

Attorney,  see  prosecuting  attorney,  corporation  counsel. 
Auditing  committee,  to  audit  report  of   treasurer,    appoint- 
ment of,  19 
Auditor,  city,  election,  term  of  office,  n 
for  what  bills  to  draw  orders  on  treasurer,      19,  53,  55 


Badges,  see  police. 

Ballots,  form  of,  14 

Ballot-boxes  for  wards,  by  whom  provided  and  kept,  14,  15 

Banners,  flags,  &c.,  over  streets,  23 

Bathing  in  public,  23 

Bicycles,  powers  of  council  relative  to  regulating  speed  of,  23 

Bonds,  required  of  what  city  officers,  19 

neglect  or  refusal  to  give,  vacates  what  offices,  20 

to  be  given  to  mayor,  19 

ordinance  to  prescribe  form,  amount  &c.,  19 

forfeited,   by  whom  prosecuted,  48 

for  prosecution  in  city  court,                             -  40,  42 


108  CHARTER  INDEX. 

Bonds,  of  clerk  of  police  court,  46 
in  police  court,  and  to  whom  payable,       -            45,  48 

water,  of  borough,  obligatory  on  city,  -  51 
common  council  to  have  power  to  authorize  and 

control  the  issue  of,  24 

approval  at  city  meeting  necessary  before  issue  of,  24 

common  council  may  take  up  outstanding,  24 
sewer  fund,  81  to  85 
street,  see  street  bonds. 

act  authorizing  redemption  of,  by  issue  of  new,  76 

Bridges  in  city,  town  to  make  and  repair,  32 
Building,  mode  and  materials,  and  alteration  of,   common 

council  may  regulate,  20 
limits,  incombustible  materials  within,  common 

council  may  prescribe,  20 

power  of  common  council  relative  to,  22 
lines,  common  council  may  designate,  27,  33 
designating,  notice  required,  and  hearing  relative 

to,  32,  33 

neglecting,  penalty,  and  how  recovered,  27 

damages  and  benefits  for,  34 
removal  of,  through  streets,  power  of  common 

council  relative  to,  22 

demolition  of,  2 1 

egress  from,     -  21 

Burials,  21 

C 

Cemeteries,  trespassing  in,  21 

sinks,  etc.,  power  of  common  council  relative  to,  20 
see  also  privies. 

Chimneys,  cleaning  of,  21 

City,  a  body  politic  and  corporate,  name,  limits  and  powers,  9 
act  incorporating,  how  adopted,  and  takes  effect 

when,  59 

repeals  what,  and  how  far,        58,  59 

wards  in,  number,  and  boundaries,                       -    9,  10 

chief  executive  magistrate  of,  16 


CHARTER   INDEX.  107 

City,    expenses,    estimates    and    appropriations    for,    when 

and  how  made,           ,    -  26 

penalties,  fees,  and  forfeitures,  for  use  of,       -  50 
water  bonds,  see  water  fund  bonds, 

may  lay  taxes,  20 

liable  for  default  of  sheriff,  19 

to  lay  walk,   when,              .                              .  30 
City  Auditor,  see  auditor. 

City  Clerk,  election,  term  of  office,  oath,  by  whom  adminis- 
tered, n,  1 6 

power  and  duties,  18 

salary,  by  whom  prescribed,  and  amount,       -  23 
clerk  of  common  council,  and  to  record  votes  of 

same  and  of  city,  18 

records  of,  evidence  in  court,  18 
to  publish  ordinances,  and  record  fact  and  date 

of  publication,       -  18 

to  keep  voting  lists  and  ballot  boxes,     -  15 
to  sign  notices  relative  to  streets  and  building 

lines,,  and  assessments  for,  32,  36 

to  sign  certificates  of  lien,  and  release  of  liens, 

for  assessments,  31 
to  file  papers  relating  to  award  of  damages  and 

benefits  from  appropriation  of  streams,  29 

to  administer  oath  to  city  officers,  16 

to  record  and  publish  election  returns  of  wards,  15 
to  record  his  own  serving  of  notices  of  orders 

of  common  council,       -  18 
City  Collector,  see  collector. 

City  Court,  powers,  jurisdiction,  and  practice  in,  -      39,  40 

penalties  for  violation  of  ordinances  recoverable  in,  23 

room,  and  accommodation  for,  42 

sessions  of,  held  when,  39 
process  in  actions  brought  to,  how  signed  and 

served,  42 

form  of  action  to  recover  fines,  etc.,  58 

writs  in,  service  and  return,  42 
bonds  for  prosecution  in,  how  taken,                      40,  42 


108  CHARTER  INDEX. 

City  Court,  attendance  of  sheriff  upon,        -  19 

jurors  for,  when  and  how  chosen,                             42,  43 

jury  trial  in,  how  obtained,                                         42,  43 

jury  for,  drawing  names  and  summoning,               42,  43 

appeal  from  judgment  in,  41 

fees  in,  payable  by  clerk  to  city  treasurer,  42 
jury,  witness,  and  officers'  fees,  clerk  to  pay  and 

how,                                                                                ,  42 

judge  of,  how  chosen,  oath,  and  term  of  office,  40 

judge,  salary  of,  and  payment,  42 

judge,  disqualification  or  inability  of,  40 

judge,  substitute  and  pay  of,  40 

clerk  of,  appointment,  oath,  and  term  of  office,  41 

powers,  duties,  and  fees,                               41,  42 

bond,  and  effect  of  neglect  or  refusal  to 

give,  20 
to  furnish  party  appealing  attested  copy 

of  record,  41 
to  issue  warrant  to  sheriff  to  summon  jury 

for,  43 

to  keep  names  of  jurors  in  boxes,  43 
to   be   present   at   drawing  of  names    of 

jurors,  43 

to  pay  over  to  treasurer  fees  received,  42 
to  pay  jury,  witnesses',  and  officers'  fees, 

and  how,  42 

to  sign  process  in,  42 

sworn  annual  account  of,  to  treasurer,  42 
City  engineer,  see  engineer. 
City  meetings,  see  meetings. 

City  officers,  election,  term  of  office,  and  residence,         u,  12,  13 

oath  of,  and  by  whom  administered,  16 

liability  of,  in  incurring  obligations,  27 

compensation  of,  23 

elections  of,  in  case  of  tie  vote,  12 

City  offices,  vacancies,  how  and  when  filled,                             12,  13 

vacant  from  neglect  to  give  bonds,  how  filled,      19,  20 


CHARTER   INDEX.  109 

Gity  rate  bill  maker,  see  rate  bill  maker, 
sheriff,  see  sheriff, 
surveyor,  see  surveyor, 
treasurer,  see  treasurer. 
Clerk  of  city,  see  city  clerk. 

and  police  courts,  see  city  and  police  courts, 
fire  companies,  see  fire  department, 
police  commissioners,  how  appointed,  52 

fire  commissioners,  how  appointed,  54 

Coasting,  see  nuisance. 

Collector,  city,  election,  and  term  of  office,  n 

powers  and  duties,  bond,  and  effect  of  neglect 

to  give,  .  -       19,  20 

proceedings  against,  when  not  performing  trust,          19 
Committee  to  lay  out  street  and  building  lines,    duty  and 

report  of,  -     32,  33 

to    prepare    survey,    estimate,    etc.,    in    taking 

stream,  28 

assessment  in  taking  stream,  appointment,  notice, 

report  of,  -       28,  29 

auditing,  to  audit  report  of  treasurer,         .          .          19 
health,  see  health, 
finance,  see  finance, 
license,  see  license, 
sinking  fund,  see  sinking  fund, 
supplies,  see  supplies, 
on  street  lighting,  see  street  lighting. 

Common  Council,  how  constituted,  valid  meetings  and  ad- 
journment of  ....  20 
mayor  presiding  officer  of  meetings  of,  16 
acts  of,  done  by  major  vote  of  members  present,  20 
disabilities  of  members,  .  .  .26 
subjects  in  relation  to  which  to  make  orders  and 

ordinances,  .  .  20,  21,  22,  23,  24 

votes,    orders,    etc.,    submitted   to   mayor,    and 

when  disapproved  how  passed,  .  .          25 

to  make  appropriations  for  city  expenses,   and 

limits  of  power  relative  to,  ,  .        26,  27 


110  CHARTER   INDEX. 

Common  Council,  to  prescribe  building  lines  and  fire  limits,   20,  2 1 

power  and  duties  relative  to  sewers  and  drains,  27 

railings  and  guards,  .  .  •    .      3° 

sidewalks  and  gutters,  .  .         30,  31 

streets,  highways,  and  street  commissioner,   21,  40 

lay-out  of  streets  and  building  lines,      .         32,  33 

may  apportion  expense  of  laying  walk,          .         30,  31 

hearing  before,  on  street  lay-outs,  .  .          32 

manner  of  procedure  in  assessments,  .         3z>  33 

may  retain  report  of  street  commissioners,          .         35 

to  appoint   police  commissioners,    and    powers 

relative  to,  .  .  .  .  52 

to  appoint  fire  commissioners,  and  powers  rela- 
tive to,  ...  54 
constitutes  a  board  of  health,  and  powers,    .  25 
may  appoint  health  committee,                .              .          25 
to  appoint  corporation  counsel,  assistant  attor- 
ney and  prosecuting  attorney,        .              .                41 
to  provide  room  and  accommodations  for  city 

and  police  court,          .  .  .  42,  46 

arrangements  by,  for  keeping  persons  sentenced 

to  jail  or  workhouse,  .  .  .48 

to  choose  jurors  of  city  court,  and  number  of,  43 

may  fix  penalty  for  non-attendance   of  jurors,          43 
may  call  out  supernumerary  police,  .  53 

powers  relative  to  appropriation  of  streams,          28,  29 
powers  of,  under  act  for  water  supply,          .  50 

to  appoint  water  commissioners,  when  and  how,          50 
to  order  special  elections  in  vacancies   of  city 

offices,  .  .  .  .  .12 

to  designate  voting  places  in  wards,  .  13 

to  fix  hour  for  opening  and  closing  of  polls  in 

special  elections,         .  .  .  .14 

to  provide  ballot  boxes  for  wards,  .         14,  15 

when  to  regulate  mode  and  materials  of  building 

and  alterations  in  buildings,  .  .         20,  21 

to    appoint   auditing    committee    of   report   of 
treasurer,        ,  ,  ,  ,  ,19 


CHARTER   INDEX.  Ill 

Common  Council,  to  prescribe  mode  of  procedure  of  board 

of  street  commissioners,     ...  33 

to  declare  vacant  wha't  offices,  and  when,  .          20 

to  regulate  and  provide   for   printing   done   for 

city,  .  22 

to  appoint  board  of  sewer  commissioners,  and 

powers  relative  to,       .  .  .51 

to  appoint  inspector  of  buildings,      .  .  80 

consent  of,  necessary  to   allow   fire   and   police 

commissioners  to  sell,  .  .  -55 

to  fix  firemen's  salaries,          .  .  .  56 

to  ratify  contracts,  .  .  .  -77 

may  elect  street  commissioner,  .  .  31 

clerk  of,  and  duties,        .  .18 

proceedings  of,  to  be  recorded  by  clerk.       .  18 

to  authorize  and  control  the  issue  of  bonds,  Sub- 
ject to  approval  of  city  meeting,          .  .          24 
to  take  up   outstanding  bonds   and    to  regulate 

finances  of  the  city,  24 

Compensation,  board  of  street  commissioners,  .          54 

registrars,      .  14 

street  commissioner,        .  .31 

water  commissioners,  .  .  67 

Complaint,  form  of,  -57 

Constables,  city  and  town,  powers  and  duties,  42,  48 

Contagious  diseases,  see  health. 
Conveyances,  see  public  conveyances". 
Corporation  counsel,   and  assistant,   appointment,  powers, 

and  duties,  .  .          41 

to  be  sworn,  and   to  conduct  all  civil  cases  in 

which  the  city  is  interested,        .  .  41 

to  be  counsel  to  the  corporation,  .          41 

additional  counsel  to  be  employed    by,  only 

by  consent  of  mayor,     . 

penalties  and  forfeitures  may  be  recovered  by, 
when  and  how  to  prosecute  forfeited  bonds, 
powers  of  counsel  relative  to  election  of, 
may  also  be  elected  prosecuting  attorney, 


112  CHARTER   INDEX. 

Counrilmen,  number,  election,  term  of  office  and  residence,          11 
County  commissioner,  when  to  apportion  highway  tax,        .          32 
commissioners,    arrangement  with    for   keeping 

criminals.  ....  48 

Court,  see  city  court. 

of  common   pleas,    appeals    to   judge   of,    frotn 

assessment  of  board  of  street  commissioners,          38 
common   pleas,    judge   of,    petition   to,    for   re- 
assessment,     ...  .  .  .38 

superior,    or    supreme,    judge    of,    to     appoint 

assessment  committee,  when.          .  28 

supreme,  judge  to  appoint  appraisers   of  dam- 
ages,  when,      .  .  .  .  .65 

Crosswalks,  made,  paved,  etc.,  at  expense  of  city,          .  29 

Curbs,  powers  of  council  relative  to,  .  .  .30 

D 

Damages  and  benefits,  see  assessment. 
Dead  animals,  see  nuisance. 
Deputy  registrar,  see  registrars. 
Deputy  sheriff,  see  sheriff. 
Drainage,  see  health. 
Drains  and  sewers,  see  sewers. 
Dismissions,  see  fire  department. 


Elections,  city,  annual,  held  by  wards,  when,          .              .  n 

officers  elected  at,  and  how,               .             .  n 
presiding  officer  of,    and  assistants,    by   whom 

designated,         .  ,14 

duties  in  regard  to  challenged  votes,  14 

to  examine  under  oath,             ,  14 

to  have  powers  of  moderators,      ,  15 

who  may  vote  at,                    .             .          I  \  15 

names  of  officers  each  voter  votes  for  at,  written 

or  printed  on  one  piece  of  paper,                     ,  14 


CHARTER   INDEX.  118 

Elections,  voting  places  in  wards  at,  and  notice  of,         .  14 

annual,  tie  vote  at,          .  .  ,  .12 

opening  and  closing  of  'polls  at,  14 

council  to  regulate  when,  .  .  .22 

Electric  cars,  see  street  cars. 

Engineer.,  city,  see  also  surveyor. 

chief,  and  assistant,  see  also  fire  department. 

Erection  of  buildings,  see  buildings. 

Estimate  of  city  expenses,  .  26 

Exhibitions,  see  amusements. 

Expenses,  see  appropriations. 

F 

Fees,  and  costs,  in  city  and  police  courts,  41,  42,  46,  47,  50 

of  application  to  judge  for   re-assessment,  who 

to  pay,  38 

of  city  clerk  of  city  court  for  copy  of  record,  41 

of  justice  acting  as  police  judge,  .         44 

salaried  officers  not  to  receive,          .  .         47,  49 

to  be  paid  into  city  treasury,     .          49 

of  witnesses  summoned  before  police  commissioners,          53 
Fenders,  see  street  cars. 
Filth,  see  nuisance. 

Finance  committee,  see  also  committee. 
Fines,  penalties,  and  forfeitures,  see  penalties. 
Fire,  district,  prescribed  by  whom,  .  .  .          21 

Fire  commissioners,  appointment  of  and  powers  of  council 

relative  to,  ....         22,  56 

number  and  term  of  office,          .  .  .54 

powers  and  duties,     .  .54 

to  be  divided  politically,  .  .  .56 

vacancies  in,  how  filled,  ,  56 

removals  of,  for  cause,  .  .  55,  56 

to  appoint  clerk,        .  54 

powers  over  fire  department,       .  ,  54 

may  remove  or  expel  firemen,  .  54 

to  have  control  of  houses  and  apparatus,  .         54 


114  CHARTER  INDEX. 

Fire  commissioners,  to  notify  city  clerk  of  removals,  etc.,            54 

to  receive  no  pay,  except  chairman,        .  t.  .          55 

expenses  of,  how  paid,            ...  55 

powers  to  purchase  and  make  repairs,  .          55 

power  to  sell  with  consent  of  council,  .                55 

not  to  exceed  appropriations,      .              .  -55 

to  be  sworn,                .              .              .  .                55 

appointment,       .              .              .              .  .54 

personally  liable,  when,          .              .  .                55 

Fire  companies,  appointment  of  men  in,  54,  55 

department,  fire  commissioners  to  organize  and  control,          54 

officers  of,  how  chosen,        .              .  .          54 

dismissal  of  members,                  .  .         54,  55 

salaries  to  be  fixed  by  council,         .  .          23 

Firemen,  how  appointed,              .              .              .  .                54 

removed  or  expelled,                 .              .•  .          54 

fines  and  discipline  of,                .              .  .                54 

Flues,  see  also  buildings. 

Forms,  for  city  and  police  court,         ':;;  »              .  .         57,  58 

of  certificate  and  discharge  of  lien,               .  .          57 

of  order  of  appointment,     *                      .  .                57 

of  order  for  sidewalk  and  gutter,      .              .  .          55 

of  ordinance,                   . .  •            .              >  .                56 
Foul  water,  see  nuisance. 

G 

Gutters  and  sidewalks,  see  sidewalks. 

Grand  jurors,  of  town,  not  to  make  complaint  to  police  court,         46 

Grade  of  walks  or  gutters,  changing  within  ten  years,  .          30 

• 
H 

Health,  common  council  a  board  of,  and  powers  relative  lo,          25 

committee,  council  to  appoint,          .              .  .25 

powers  and  duties  of,               .  .                25 

officers,  council  to  appoint,               .              .  .    .      22 


CHARTER   INDEX.  115 

I 

Inspector  of   articles   offered   for   sale,   power  of  common 

council  relative  to  appointing,  .  .  22 

buildings,  see  buildings, 
of  workhouse,  arrangements  for  criminals  with,     48 


Judge  to  appoint  committee  on  stream  assessments,  .          28 
of  city  court,  see  city  court,  police  court, 
of  police  court,  see  city  court,  police  court. 

Jurors,  of  city  court,  number,  how  and  when  chosen,  .          43 

summoning  and  drawing  names  of,  42,  43 

penalty  for  not  serving,             .  .          43 

Jury,  trial  by,  in  city  court,          ....  42,  43 

Justice  of  peace,  acting  judge  of  police  court,  when,  .          44 

restriction  of  powers  of,               .              .  44 


Land  and  other  estate,  for  water-works,  authority  to  take,  63 
for  laying  additional  water  main,  authority  to  take,  69 
taking  for  public  use,  .  .  .  .22 

Ladders,  see  fire  department. 

Lien,  on  land,  etc.,  assessments  of  benefits  from  lay-out  of 

streets  and  building  lines.  .  .          27,  31,  37 

assessments  for  drains  and  sewers,  .  .         27,  37 

assessments  of  benefits  from  taking  streams.  .          29 

expense  of  sidewalks  and  gutters,  .  .  31 

certificate  of,  signing  and  recording  of,          .  .          31 

form  of  certificate,  and  discharge  of,        .  .  57 

continuance  of,  how  limited,  .  .  31,  37 

in  case  of  appeal,        .  .  .  37 

how  enforced,  ...  22,  31,  37,  66 

to  be  recorded,  how,         .  .  .  .  31 

on  land,  etc.,  taxes  for  expense  of  waterworks,          .          66 


116  CHARTER   INDEX.  / 

M 

Manure,  see  nuisance. 

Map,  drawing,  etc.,  of  lay-out  of  streets,  building  lines,  etc.,         34 

Mayor,  election,  term  of  office,  and  residence,         .  .          1 1 

powers  and  duties,  .  .  .  .         16,  17 

absence,  inability,  or  vacancy  in  office  of,  .18 

obstructing,  or  refusing  to  assist,  .  .  17 

may  commit  to  prison,  .  .  .  .  .          16 

may  disperse  disorderly  assemblages,       .  .  16 

may  exercise  powers  of  sheriff,  ,  .  .17 

may  call  out  militia,  when,  .  .  .  17 

to  recommend  legislation,  .  .  .          17 

approval  or  disapproval  by,  of  votes  and  ordinances,  25 
report  of,  when  made,  recorded  and  published,  .  17 
when  to  issue  distress  warrants  to  collector,  .  25,  31 
when  to  issue  warrants  to  sheriff  against  collector 

neglecting  trust,     .  .  .  .  .19 

when  and  how  to  call  special  city  meetings  relative 

to  ordinances,  .  .  .  .  25 

to  appoint  and  remove  members,  and  fill  vacancies 

in  board  of  street  commissioners,  when,  .         33,  34 

to  sign  assessment  warrants,  .  .  -37 

to  sign  certificates  of  lien,  and  release  of  liens,  31 

to  sign  tax  warrants,  .  .  .  .19 

to  sign  water  fund  bonds,  .  .  .  71 

to  sign  return  of  names  of  jurors,  .  .          43 

may  sign  notice  of  lay-out  of  streets,   and  building 

lines,  and  assessments  for,        .  .  .         32,  36 

to  sign  descriptive  survey  of  lay-out  of  streets,  etc.,          36 

liability  of,  on  overdrawn  appropriation,  .  27 

to  call  meetings  of  council  to  fill  vacancies  in  office,          13 

salary  of,  .  .  .  .  .  17 

Meetings,  mayor  presiding  officer  at,  .  .  .16 

warning,  time  and  place  of,    .  .  .  21 

validity  of,  .  .20 

city,  may  lay  taxes,  ...  20 

to  lay  a  tax  when/  .  .  .         27 


CHARTER    INDEX.  117 

Meetings,  special  city,  to  approve  or  disapprove  of  .issue  of 

bonds,  .....  24 

to  approve  estimates,  how  called,  .  .  26 

Militia,  mayor  may  call  out,  when,          ...  17 
serving  under  call  of  mayor,   and  refusing,   pay  and 

penalty,      ......  18 

Misdemeanors,  acts  constituting,  and  where  prosecuted.  23 

N 

Notices,  to  non-residents  ordered  to  lay  walks,  etc.,  .          -jo 

of  hearing  on  street  layout,       ...  32 

Nuisance,  orders  and  ordinances  relative  to,  common  coun- 
cil to  make,  .  .  .  .20 

O 

Oaths,  of  city  officers,  form,  and  administration,  16,  33,  40 

Officers  elected  at  city  election,  and  term  of  office  of,  12,  13 

form  of  oath  of,  and  by  whom  administered,        .  16 

removal  of,  powers  of  council  relative  to,     .  .          23 

salaried,  not  to  receive  fees  and  costs  in  police  court,   47,  49 
prosecuting,  fees  of,  ...  47 

what  authorized  to  arrest  without  previous  complaint, 

and  when,  .  .  .  .  .49 

Orders  of  auditor,  when  to  be  drawn,      .  .  .         19,  55 

Ordinances  and  orders,  subject  relative  to  which  common 

council  may  make,      ...  20  to  24,  43 

form  of,  and  complaint,  for  violation  of,  5  6,  57 

publication  of,  and  certificate  of,     .  .  18 

submission  of,  to  mayor  for  approval,  .          25 

disapproved  by  mayor,  how  passed,  .  25 

submitted  to  city  meeting  when,  and  notice  of,     25,  26 
violations,  penalty,  how  recovered,  .  23 

P 

Panther  swamp  canal,  .  .  .  .  .72 

Papers,  loose,  see  nuisance. 

Peddling,  and  auctions,  power  of  common  council  relative  to,        23 


118  CHARTER   INDEX. 

Penalties,  fines,  and  forfeitures,  recoverable  how,  and  form 

of  action  for,       .  .  .  23,  27.  50,  58 

not  to  exceed  fifty  dollars,  when,  .  .          23 

for  violation  of  orders  and  ordinances,   common 

council  to  prescribe,  .  .  .  23 

Permits  for  building,  see  building. 

Police,  number,  election,  and  term  of  office,  .  .          53 

officers,  appointment  of,  .  .  .  52 

government,  and  powers,        .  .  .  52,  53 

authority,  local  limits  of,  .  v  •  49 

removal  or  suspension  of,  .  .  .52 

vacancies  in,  how  filled,  .  .  .  54 

to  convey  criminals  to  place  of  confinement,  .          48 

suspension  for  cause,        .  .  .  54 

to  be  divided  equally  in  politics,        .   '  .  52 

commissioners,  powers  of  council  relative  to  the  ap- 
pointing of,  .  .  22 
board   of,    number,    appointment    and 

term  of  office,  .  .  52,  56 

powers  and  duties,  .  .         52,  53 

to  be  divided  politically,  .  .          56 

vacancies  in,  how  filled,  .         55,  56 

removals  of,  for  cause,  .  .          56 

powers  over  police  force,  .         52,  53 

to  appoint  clerk,  .  .  .52 

hearings  before,       .  •  .  53 

to  notify  city  clerk  of  removals,  etc.,  52 
powers  to  purchase  and  make  repairs,  55 
to  receive  no  pay,  .  .  -55 

expenses  of,  how  paid,        .  .  55 

power  to  sell  with  consent  of  council,  55 
not  to  exceed  appropriations,  55 

to  be  sworn,      .  55 

compulsory    attendance    of    witnesses 

before,     .  53 

process  of  subpoena  how  served  on  wit- 
nesses before,  ,  ,  53 


CHARTER   INDEX.  119 

Police  commissioners,  attendance  of  witnesses  before,   how 

compelled  by,     .  .  -53 

clerk  of,  may  'subpoena  witnesses,         .          53 

personally  liable,  when,      .  .  55 

fees  of  witnesses  summoned  before,     .          53 

court,  jurisdiction,  powers  and  authority  of,     44,  45,  46,  50 

room,  and  accommodations  for,        .  .  46 

when  to  be  open,  ...  .46 

complaints    to,    in  criminal   matters,    by  whom 

made,         .  .  .  .  46 

form  of  complaint,  .  .  .  -57 

adjournment  of  trial,  bail,  and  bond  in,        .  47 

service  of  process  in,  and  fees,  .  48,  49 

suspension  of  judgment  in,  .  .         49,  50 

taxable  fees  and  costs  in,   and  when   to  be  de- 
manded, .  .  .  .  .47 
fines  and  costs  before  and  after  commitment  by,          47 
reduction  or  disallowance  of  fees  by,      .              .          50 
fees  of  prosecuting  officer  in,              .              .  47 
justice  acting  as  judge  in,  and  fees,         .              .          44 
may  commit  to  reform  school,           .              .                48 
may  require  sureties  of  the  peace,  when,             .          50 
misdemeanors  prosecuted  in,              .              .                23 
offenses  for  which  arrests  may  be  made,  and  judg- 
ment rendered  in  without  previous  complaint,          49 
appeals  from,  bond,  and  binding  over,                 .          45 
judge  of,  powers,  duties,  and  salary,              .         40,  42 
not  disqualified  by  residence,  and  lia- 
bility to  taxation,     .              .              .45 
substitute  for,  who,  and  when,     .               44 
clerk  of,  powers,  duties,  salary  and  bond,              45,  46 
record  of,   open  to  public  inspection,          45 
to  notify  city  attorney  of  forfeiture  of 

bonds,  .  .  .  .48 

to  receive  fees,  penalties,  and  costs, 
and  render  monthly  account  of  to 
treasurer,  ,  ,  .46,  47 


120  CHARTER   INDEX. 

Police  court,  clerk  of,  to  designate  justice  to  act  as  substitute 

police  judge,  when,                .             .  44 

to  record  request  for  substitute  judge,  44 

to  pay  costs,  when  and  how,                  .    •  47 

limit  of  time  of  paying  costs,          .  47 

fire,  see  fire  department. 

Polls,  opening  and  closing  of  at  annual  elections,                  .  14 

President,  power  of  council  relative  to  compensation  of,     .  23 

Printing,  power  of  council  in  relation  to  providing  for,       .  22 

Privies,  power  of  common  council  relative  to,                .  20 
Property,  real  and  personal,  powers  of  council  in  relation 

thereto,                .             .              .              .              .  22 

Prosecuting  attorney,  powers  of  council  relative  to  election  of,  22 
and  assistant  attorney,  complaints  by,  to 

police  court  in  criminal  cases,  .  46 
appointment  of,  powers  and  duties,  41 
in  case  of  absence  or  inability  to  act,  as- 
sistant attorney  to  prosecute,  .  41 
may  also  be  elected  corporation  counsel,  41 
when  to  designate  justice  to  act  as  police 

judge,  44 

fees  of  assistant  attorney,  when  acting  as,  41 
qualification  of,                  .              .              .41 
Public  conveyances,  public  carriages,  etc.,  powers  of  com- 
mon council  relative  to,            .             .22 
assemblages  and  celebrations,             .             .             .21 

R 

Real  estate,  when  council  can  convey,          .  .             .22 

Records  of  city  clerk  and  assistant,  validity  of,  .                18 

clerk  of  police  court,  open  to  public  inspection,  45,  46 

Reform  school,  police  court  may  commit  to,  .             .         48 

Registrars  of  town,  duties  and  compensation,  .      13,  14,  15 

refusing,  or  neglecting  duties,  penalty,  .                 15,  16 

to  make  voting  lists,                 .             .  .         13,  14 

to  choose  presiding  officers,          .  .             .14 

to  check  lists,             .            .            .  .              14 


CHARTER  INDEX.  191 

Registry  lists,  how  made,  and  penalty  for  altering,  13,  14,  15 

when,  and  to  whom  delivered,  .  ,          14 

list,  what  used  at  adjourned  annual  election,     .  12 

Removal  from  office,  powers  of  council  relative  to,          .         23,  56 

ward,  offices  of  ward  officers  vacated  thereby,          12 

Reports,  of  mayor,  .  .  .  .  .17 

committee  on  damages  and  benefits  in  taking  streams,      28 

sewer  commissioners,          .  .  .  .51 

treasurer,  .....  18 

water  commissioners,  .  .  .  .64 

Riots,  mayor  to  suppress,     .  .  .  .  .15 

powers  of  council  relative  to,       .  22 


Salaries,  of  city  officers  and  powers  of  council  relative  to,         23 
of  aldermen  and  councilmen,    restrictions   as  to,          23 
Scales,  see  weights  and  measures. 
Schools,  see  health. 
Seal  of  city,  ......         23 

Sealer  of  weights  and  measures,  see  weights  and  measures. 

Sewers  and  drains,  power  of  common  council  relative  to,       20,  27 

construction  without  permission,  penalty,      .  .          27 

defraying  cost  and  expense  of,     .  .  .         34,  35 

assessments  for,  a  lien,  how  and  when  collectible,        27,  37 

lateral  and  connecting,  assessments  for,  and  amount,         36 

Sewer  assessments,  how  made,    ....         34,  35 

proceedings  in  making,  .         34,  35,  36 

limit  of,  ....          36 

collectible  only  on  completion  of  sewer,          37 
commissioners,  number,  how  appointed,  and  term  of 

office,  51,  56 

vacancies  in,  how  filled,  .  .          51 

power  and  duties,     .  51,  52,  81  to  85 

trustee  of  sewer  fund  bonds,       .     51,  81  to  85 
to  keep  record  of  their  official  proceed- 
ing*, ....  51 


122  CHARTER  INDEX. 

Sewer  commissioners,   annual  report  of,        .  .  .51 

to  be  under  direction  of  common  council,         5  2 

fund  bonds,  first  series,  .  .  .         81,  82 

second  series,      .  .  .  82,  83 

third  series,  .  .  .         83,  84 

fourth  series,        .  .  .  84,  85 

fifth  series,    .  .  .  .  91 

sixth  series,          ...  97 

Sheriff,  city,  election,  and  term  of  office,     .  .  .11 

authority,  local  limits  of,  ...  49 

powers,  liabilities,  and  bond  of,         .  .  19,  20 

to  attend  upon  city  court,  when,  .  .  19 

to  summon  jury,         ....  42,  43 

to  convey  criminals  to  place  of  confinement,  .         48 

service  of  process  in  police  court  by,  fees  of,       .  48 

county  and  deputy,  may  serve  criminal  process,  and 

convey  criminals  to  place  of  confinement,  48,  49 

Shuttle  Meadow  lake,  powers  of  council  over,         .  .          24 

jurisdiction  of  police  at,  .         45,  49 

Sidewalks  and  gutters,  powers  of  common  council  relative  to,  30,  31 
making,  notice  of,  and  limiting  time  of,  .  29,  30,  31 
neglecting  order  of  common  council  relative  to, 

penalty,  30 

changing  grade  of  and  relaying,  when  at  expense 

of  city,  30 

when  to  apportion  expense  of,  .  .         30,  31 

form  of  order  apportioning  expense  of,  .          57 

to  make  curb,  flag,  or  pave,       .  .  56 

snow  and  ice  on,  .  .  .  .24 

Signs  across  sidewalks,  ....  23 

Sinking  fund  for  paying  cost  of  waterworks,    authorized,          66 
Steam  boilers,  use  and  erection  of.  powers  of  common  coun- 
cil relative  to,  .  .  .  .20 

Streams,  when  common  council  may  take,  .  .  28 

damages  and  benefits  from  taking,  .  .  28,  29 

assessments,  how  collected,  .  .         28 

benefits  not  to  exceed  cost,  .  .  29 


CHARTER  INDEX.  138 

Street,  lay-out  of,  notice  required,  and  hearing  relative  to,  32 
not  opened  except  by  order  of  common  council,  .  31 
snow  and  ice  on,  powers  of -council,  .  .  21 

naming  and  numbering,          .  .  .  .21 

processions  in,  .  .  .  .  21 

lighting  of,  powers  of  council,  .  .  .          22 

excavations  in,  .  .  .  .  22 

laying  out  and  paving,  powers  and  duties  of  board  of 

street  commissioners,          .  .  .  34,  35 

committee  on  lay-out  of,  .  '    .         32,  33 

committee,  chairman,   salary,  .  .  .        102 

portion  of  town  highway  tax  for,  by  whom  determined,         32 
town  not  obligated  to  make,  in  city,  „  .         32 

bonds,  city  authorized  to  issue,    see  special  acts  of 

Conn.  1895,  pp.  396-7. 
cars,    powers    of   council   relative   to   speed  of  and 

fenders  on,  .  .  .  .  .23 

assessments,  benefits  not  to  exceed  damages  and  cost,         35 
damages,  how  paid,  .  .  .  .36 

commissioner,    powers  of  common  council  relative 

to  appointing,  .  .  31 

election,  term  of  office,         .  .         31 

duties  and  compensation,  .          31 

commissioners,  board  of,   appointment  and  term  of 

office,   .  33 

not    to    be    members    of    common 

council,     .  33 

duties,      .  33,  34,  35 

oath,  and  certificate  of  appointment,  33 
vacancy  in,  and  removal  of  members,  33,34 
to  be  divided  equally  politically,  33 

when  disqualified.     -  .  .34 

compensation,     ...  34 

notice  of  hearing,     .  .  .34,  35 

to  report  cost  of  improvements,  35 

proceedings  in  assessment  of  dama- 
ges and  benefits  by,  .  33,  34,  35,  36 
report  of,  disposal  of  by  council,  35 


184  CHARTER  INDEX. 

Street  commissioners,   power    of    council    relative   \o    Ap- 
pointing,   .  .  .  .22 
appeals  from  and  to  whom,            .       38,  39 
reference   of  appeals  to  committee, 

when,  and  powers  of,         .  .         38 

powers  of  council  relative  to  appeals, 

and  return  of  papers,  .  39 

authority  of  common  council  over,      21,  31 
Surveys,  descriptive,  and  estimate  of  cost    of  improvement 

by  taking  stream,       ....  28 

included  in  report  of  committee  laying  out  streets 

and  building  lines,  .  .  .  -33 

Surveyor,  city,  power  of  common    council    relative    to    ap- 
pointing,       .  .  .  .  .  22 

Subways,  bonds,  etc.,  .  .  .  .  87,  99 


Tax  warrants,  by  whom  issued,  .  .  .  19 

Taxation,  mode  of,  .  .  .  .  .          22 

Taxes,  laying  and  collecting,      .  '.  .  19,  20,  27 

town  highway,   portion   for  city  highways,  by  whom 

determined,  .  .  .32 

to  be  paid  into  city  treasury,      .  32 

for  expenses  of  water-works,  how  laid  and  collected,         66 

a  lien,  and  how  forclosed,          .  '.         66,  67 

to  be  laid  at  meeting  making  appropriation,         .  27 

Treasurer,  city,  election,  term  of  office,  and  bond  of,  n,  19 
powers  and  duties,  .  .  .  .  18,  19 
report  of,  when  and  how  made,  audited,  re- 
corded, and  published,  .  .  ^g 
salary  of  and  power  of  common  council  relative  to,  23 
fee§  in  city  court,  payable  to,  .  .  42 
fines,  penalties,  costs,  etc.,  received  by  clerk  of 

police  court,  payable  to,                 .             .  46 
moneys  received  by  water   commissioners   pay- 
able to,  66 


CHARTER   INDEX.  125 

Treasurer,   receipts  of  city  attorney  from  forfeited    bonds 

payable  to,  ....  48 

to  pay  all  orders  of  auditor,  .  .  .19 

to  keep  on  file  annual  account  of  clerk  of  police 

court,  .....  46 

to  countersign  water  fund  bonds,  .  .  71 

to  have  powers  of  town  treasurers,  .  .  18 

county,  assessment  of  compensation  or  damages, 

deposited  with  ....  65 

Treasury,  city,  amount  agreed  upon  for  damages  in  taking 

stream  deposited  in,  when,  .  .  .28 

amounts  assessed  for  damages  deposited  in, 

when,  .....  29,  36 
penalties  for  violating  orders  and  ordinances, 

for  use  of,        .  .  .  .  .23 

taxable  fees  of  salaried  officers,  for  use  of,  49 

Trespassing,  powers  of  council  in  relation  to,  .  .          2* 

u 

Unwholesome  food,  powers  of  council  relative  to,  21 


Vacancies  in  office,  when,  how,  and  by  whom  filled. 

.     8,  12,  13,  18,  20,  22,  28,  29 
Vehicles,  see  also  public  conveyance. 

powers  of  council  relative  to  regulation  of,      .  23 

Vetoed  measures,  how  passed,  .  .  .  .25 

Voters,  in  city  and  ward  meetings,  qualifications,  .  n 

wilful  false  swearing  of,  penalty,       .  .  .          14 

at  special  elections  to  fill  vacancies,         .  .  13 

change  of  residence,  .  .  .  .11 

challenged,  .  .  .  .  .  14 

not  on  list,     ......          15 

Votes,  receiving,  counting,  declaring,  and  returning  to  city 

clerk,     .  .  14,  15 

recording,  and  publishing,     .  .  .  .15 


126  CHARTER   INDEX. 

Vote,  tie,  proceedings  in  case  of,  .  .  .  12 

of  city  and  common  council,    record    of,    by    whom 

kept,  ......          18 

of  common  council  submitted  to  mayor  for  approval,        25 
disapproved  by  mayor,  how  passed,      25 

Voting  lists,  voters'  names  entered  on  when,       .  .         13,  14 

mode  of,  illegal,  and  allowing  such,  .  14,  15 

lists  to  be  kept  by  city  clerk,        .  .  .  14 

places,  when  to  open  and  close,         .  .  .14 

W 

Walks,  see  sidewalks. 

Walls,  see  buildings,  fire  district. 

Wards,  number  and  boundaries,               .             .              .  9,  10 

officers  of,  to  be  residents  of,             .             .  .9 

meetings,  voters  at,                          .              .              .  n 

presiding  officer,  powers  and  duties,  14,  15 

ballot  boxes,  number,  and  how  provided,              .  14,  15 

polls  in,  opening  and  closing  of,                      .  .14 

registry  list  of  electors  in,  how  made,       .              .  13,  14 

voting  places  in,  and  .notice  of,          .             .  .14 

Warrants,  against  negligent  collector,  issued  by  mayor,  19 

arrest  and  trial  without,  when  lawful,          .  .          49 

assessment,  to  collector,  issued  by  mayor,        .  31,  37 

distress,  when  mayor  may  issue,                  .  25,  31 

for  execution,  when  granted  by  police  court,  23,  45 

jury,  to  sheriff,  how  issued,             .              .  .43 

on  account  of  offenses  within  jurisdiction  of  police 

court,  45 

tax,  for  collector,  mayor  or  aldermen  to  sign,  .          19 
Water  commissioners,   powers  of  common  council  relative 

to  appointing,               .             .  22 
board  of,  number,  election,  and  term 

of  office,                  .  50,  64 
powers  and  duties,           .               50,  64,  66 

annual  report  of,               .              .  64 

bonds  and  compensation  of,  .         67 

majority,  a  quorum,         ,             ,  65 


CHARTER   INDEX.  127 

Water  commissioners,   vacancies  in,  how  filled,        ..  .          65 

orders  of,  what  designated  in,      .  67 

trustees  of  water  bonds,  .  66,  70,  72 
for  what  to  draw  orders  on  treasurer,  64 
to  pay  over  to  treasurer  all  moneys 

received,  .  .  .66 

to  repair  and  pay  for  damages  caused 

by  laying  pipes,  .  .  64 

to   keep   record  of  their  official  pro- 
ceedings, and  books  of  account,  64 
price    and    distribution    of,    water  commissioners  to 

regulate,  .....  64 

terms  of  supplying  localities  outside  city  limits,        .  69 

willful  corrupting  of,  in  reservoir,  etc.,   how  punished,      67 
fund  bonds,  of  borough,  authority  to  issue,  interest, 

and  amount,      .  .  .  .65 

second  series,  authority  to  issue,  interest, 

and  amount,  69 

obligatory  on  city,  51 

issue  by    city    authorized,    and 

amount,     -  70 

third  series,   authority  to  issue,  interest, 

and  amount,      -  71 

fourth  series,  72 

fifth  series,  73,  74 

sixth  series,  74,  75,  76 

seventh  series,  76 

eighth  series,  92 

ninth  series,  101 

pipes,  authority  to  extend  to  town  limits,  69 

rents,  collected  by  and  paid  over  to  whom,  64 

avails  of,  how  applied,        -  66 

deficiency  of,  supplied  by  tax,  66 

excess  of,  how  applied,      -  66 

a  lien,  and  may  be  forclosed,  66,  67 

supply,  additional  main,  69 

canal  and  aqueduct,    -  72,  73 


128  CHARTER   INDEX. 

Water-works,  authority  to  take  lands,  etc.,  for,                         63,  73 

water  supply  for,  and  source,  63 
powers  of  common  council  relative  to,  21,  22,  24,  50 
cost  and  expense  of,  how  defrayed,  65,  66,  70,  71,  72 
assessment  of  compensation  or  damages  on 

account  of,  how  made,  65 
claims  on  account  of,  water  commissioners  to 

audit,  and  draw  orders  for,  64 

injuring  any  portion  of,  how  punished,  67 
ordinances  in  relation  thereto,  penalty  for 

violations  of,                                                          24,  25 

violation  of  to  be  a  misdemeanor,  24 

jurisdiction  of  police  court  over,         45,  49 

Weighers,  public,  powers  of  common  council  relative  to,  22 

West  canal,  expense  of,  how  provided  for,  75 

Workhouse,  and  jails,  arrangements  in  reference  to,  48 

persons  conveyed  to,  how,  48 


Yeas  and  nays,  see  rules. 


ORDINANCES 


AND 


STANDING     RULES 


OP    THE 


COMMON    COUNCIL 


ORDINANCES. 


CHAPTER  I. 

ACCOUNTS  AND  CLAIMS. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  New 
Britain  : 

SECTION  i.  Contracting  Accounts.  No  account  shall  be  con- 
tracted in  behalf  of  said  city,  or,  if  contracted,  shall  be  of  any 
binding  force,  unless  the  person  so  contracting  be  duly  authorized 
by  the  charter  of  the  city  or  some  order  or  ordinance  of  the  Com- 
mon Council,  or  by  the  committee  of  supplies  thereof ;  provided, 
however,  that  said  committee  of  supplies  shall  not  make  or  con- 
tract, or  consent  to  the  making  or  contracting  of  any  account  to 
an  amount  exceeding  ten  dollars,  without  special  authority  granted 
it  by  a  vote  of  said  Common  Council. 

SEC.  2.  Bills  to  be  Itemized.  All  bills  or  claims  against  the 
city  shall,  where  the  nature  of  the  case  admits  of  it,  contain  the 
items,  respective  dates,  and  name  of  contracting  party,  and  shall 
not  otherwise  be  approved  or  paid. 

SEC.  3.  Judgments.  Any  claim  against  the  city  by  reason  of 
the  final  judgment  of  a  court  or  judge,  shall  be  certified  by  the 
Corporation  Counsel  to  be  correct  before  being  presented  to  the 
committee  on  claims. 

SEC.  4.  Auditor's  Orders.  No  order  shall  be  drawn  by  the 
Auditor  upon  the  Treasurer  without  a  previous  vote  of  the  Com- 
mon Council  authorizing  the  same,  except  for  the  pay  rolls  and 
the  regular  salaries  of  city  officers  which  shall  be  duly  approved  by 
the  Mayor.  The  only  evidence  of  such  authority  shall  be  a  certi- 
fied copy  of  the  vote  of  said  Common  Council,  which  it  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  City  Clerk  to  deliver  forthwith  to  the  Auditor.  All 
orders  so  drawn  shall  specify  the  nature  of  the  claims  for  which 
they  are  respectively  drawn. 


4  CHAPTER    I. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

SEC.  5.  Payments  from  the  Treasury.  No  money  shall  be  paid 
from  the  City  Treasury  except  upon  the  written  order  of  the  Audi- 
tor specifying  the  nature  of  the  claim,  and  any  payment  otherwise 
made  shall  not  be  binding  upon  said  city  ;  provided,  however, 
that  notes  of  said  city,  payable  at  bank,  or  interest  on  city  notes, 
scrip,  or  certificates  of  debt,  may  be  paid  by  the  City  Treasurer. 

SEC.  6.  Treasurer's  Receipts.  The  Treasurer  shall  pay  all  or- 
ders so  drawn  in  the  order  in  which  they  shall  have  been  presented. 

Whenever  any  money  shall  be  paid  into  the  Treasury  of  said 
City,  the  Treasurer  shall  execute  duplicate  receipts  thereof,  one 
of  which  shall  be  delivered  to  the  party  paying  said  money,  and 
the  other  deposited  immediately  with  the  City  Clerk. 

SEC.  7.  Claims  for  Damages  Certified  by  City  Clerk.  When 
any  assessment  of  damages  against  the  city,  for  any  public  im- 
provement, is  due  and  payable  to  any  person  or  persons,  a  bill  for 
the  amount  of  damages  assessed  to  each  in  excess  of  the  benefits 
assessed  to  the  same  person  for  the  public  improvements,  shall  be 
by  said  person  presented  to  the  City  Clerk,  and  having  been,  by 
the  City  Clerk,  compared  with  the  order  of  assessment  and  certi- 
fied to  be  correct,  shall  be  passed  in  the  same  manner  as  other 
bills.  In  case  any  person  in  whose  favor  such  bill  for  damages  is 
passed,  shall  refuse  to  accept  the  order  drawn  therefor,  the  Audi- 
tor shall  forward  such  order  to  the  Treasurer,  who  shall  thereafter 
pay  the  same  on  demand  of  the  person  in  whose  favor  it  was 
drawn. 

SEC.  8.  Committee  on  Claims ;  Street  Bills.  A  committee  on 
claims  shall  annually  be  appointed  from  among  the  members  of 
the  Common  Council,  to  whom  all  bills,  accounts  and  claims 
against  the  city,  except  such  claims  as  are  otherwise  provided  for 
in  the  ordinances,  shall  be  referred,  and  who  shall  carefully  and 
faithfully  examine  such  bills,  accounts  and  claims,  and,  when 
necessary,  examine  all  persons  contracting  or  having  knowledge  of 
the  same,  shall  note  thereon  their  approval  or  disapproval,  and 
report  the  same  to  the  Common  Council,  with  all  informalities  or 


CHAPTER    I. 
ACCOUNTS    AND     CLAIMS. 


errors  discovered  therein.  Said  Council  shall  not  approve  nor 
order  the  payment  of  any  such  bill,  account  or  claim  until  said 
committee  shall  have  reported  thereon,  unless  by  a  unanimous  vote 
of  said  Council,  such  reference  shall  be  dispensed  with  in  any  par- 
ticular case.  Said  committee  however,  shall  not  approve  the  bills 
of  the  Street  Commissioner  unless  they  have  previously  been 
approved  by  the  Street  Committee. 

SEC.  9.  When  Payment  of  Claim  Withheld.  In  any  case  any  per- 
son to  whom  a  claim  is  due  and  payable,  shall  be  indebted  to  the 
city,  the  City  Clerk  shall  withhold  the  order  for  the  payment  of 
such  claim  until  such  indebtedness  is  satisfied. 

SEC.  10.  Claims  for  Damages.  Whenever  any  claim  for  dam- 
age to  person  or  property  shall  be  presented  against  said  city,  by 
bill,  petition  to  the  court  of  Common  Council,  or  otherwise, 
except  in  cases  of  assessments  provided  for  in  the  Charter  or  Ordi- 
nances of  said  city,  the  Court  of  Common  Council  shall  appoint  a 
proper  committee  to  inquire  into  and  report  the  facts  or  refer  the 
same  to  the  Committee  on  Claims,  provided  that  no  such  claim 
shall  be  so  referred,  or  considered,  unless  it  shall  appear  by  the 
certificate  of  the  City  Clerk,  indorsed  upon  the  paper  or  petition 
whereby  the  same  is  presented  to  the  court  of  Common  Council, 
that  due  notice  of  said  claim  was  reasonably  given  to  him  as  re- 
quired by  the  statute  laws  of  this  State  in  such  cases. 

Upon  receipt  of  any  such  notice  the  City  Clerk  shall  forthwith 
transmit  the  same  to  the  Corporation  Counsel,  who  shall  at  once 
proceed  to  examine  into  such  claim  and  investigate  all  the  circum- 
stances and  any  legal  question  arising  thereon  ;  keeping  a  written 
record  or  memorandum  of  the  facts  and  results  thus  ascer- 
tained ;  and  when  said  claim  is  considered  by  the  committee  to 
which  it  may  be  referred  the  Corporation  Counsel  shall  be  present 
with  said  record,  or  memorandum. 

Such  committee  shall  notify  any  person  or  corporation  who  may 
be  liable  in  damages  on  account  of  such  claim  to  appear  and  be 


6  CHAPTER    I. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

heard  in  reference  to  the  same,  and  to  relieve  said  city  from  any 
liability  therefor. 

Upon  receipt  of  a  notice  of  claim  for  damages  arising  from  any 
alleged  defect  in  any  street  or  sidewalk,  the  City  Clerk  shall  fur- 
nish the  Corporation  Counsel  with  a  copy  thereof,  and  said  Cor- 
poration Counsel  shall  immediately  cause  the  City  Engineer  to 
make  a  map  of  the  place  where  such  claimed  defect  existed,  unless, 
in  the  opinion  of  the  Corporation  Counsel,  such  map  is  unnec- 
essary, and  shall  direct  some .  officer  or  employe  of  the  street 
department  to  investigate  such  claim,  ascertain  the  facts  and  make 
a  written  report  to  the  Corporation  Counsel  of  said  facts  and  the 
evidence  relating  thereto,  giving  the  names  and  residences  of  wit- 
nesses. Said  report  shall  be  made  within  ten  days  after  such 
officer  or  employe  has  been  directed  to  make  such  investigation, 
and  it  shall  be  his  duty  to  make  such  further  investigation  and 
report  as  the  Corporation  Counsel  shall  direct. 

No  claim  for  damages  shall  be  allowed  and  paid  by  said  city, 
unless  the  Corporation  Counsel  is  clearly  of  the  opinion  that  the 
city  is  legally  liable  to  pay  the  amount  so  allowed. 

SEC.  ii.  Auditor's  Classification  Book.  The  Auditor  shall  keep 
a  book  called  the  Classification  Book,  suitably  ruled  in  columns, 
for  the  numbers  of  all  claims  presented  against  the  city,  the  names 
of  the  several  claimants,  the  designation  of  the  departments  or 
classes  of  claims  to  which  they  belong,  and  money  columns  for  the 
amount  allowed  by  the  Committee  on  Claims  on  each  claim. 

SEC.  12.  Auditors  to  Classify  Claims.  The  Auditor  shall  num- 
ber every  claim,  and  enter  in  the  Classification  Book  the  number, 
the  name  of  the  claimant,  the  class  or  department  to  which  it  be- 
longs, and  set  down  in  each  department  the  amount  of  the  claim 
which  belongs  to  that  department. 

SEC.  13.  Auditor  to  Report  Monthly.  The  Auditor  shall 
monthly  lay  before  the  Committee  on  Finance,  an  abstract  of  his 
Classification  Book,  showing  the  aggregate  of  bills  presented  against 
each  department  and  paid  by  him,  and  the  balance  of  the  appro- 
priation to  each  department  unexpended. 


CHAPTER    I.  7 

ACCOUNTS    AND     CLAIMS. 

SEC.  14.  When  Bills  Exceed  Appropriation.  If  the  aggregate 
of  bills  coming  to  the  hands  of  the  Auditor  duly  approved  during 
any  month  shall  exceed  the  unexpended  balance  of  the  appropria- 
tion to  which  they  belong,  the  Auditor  shall  report  the  facts  to  the 
Committee  on  Finance  and  the  Court  of  Common  Council  at  their 
regular  sessions. 

SEC.  15.  Finance  Committee  to  Instruct  Auditor.  In  case  the 
Committee  on  Finance  shall  find  that  there  is  not  sufficient  money 
in  the  hands  of  the  Treasurer  to  pay  all  the  bills  duly  allowed, 
they  shall  instruct  the  Auditor  in  what  order  the  same  shall  be 
paid  by  order  on  the  Treasurer,  giving  preference  to  the  regular 
officers  and  employes  of  the  City,  and  said  Auditor  shall  obey  their 
instructions. 

SEC.  1 6.  Claims  Filed.  All  bills  presented  to  the  Committee 
on  Claims  shall  be  carefully  filed  and  preserved  by  the  City  Clerk 
in  his  office. 

SEC.  17.  Auditor  to  Keep  Books.  The  Auditor,  on  drawing 
any  order,  shall  charge  the  amount  of  the  same  to  the  proper  ac- 
count or  accounts,  in  books  kept  by  him  for  that  purpose. 

SEC.  1 8.  Treasurer  to  Report.  The  Treasurer  shall  report  to 
the  Committee  on  Finance  on  the  first  of  each  month  the  amount 
of  money  belonging  to  the  City  in  his  hands. 

SEC.  19.  City  Clerk  to  Keep  Record.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
City  Clerk  to  keep  a  record,  in  books  provided  specially  for  that 
purpose,  of  all  accounts  due  said  city  from  any  and  every  source, 
excepting  taxes,  assessments,  water  rents  and  fines  and  penalties 
imposed  by  the  Police  and  City  Courts  ;  and  to  obtain  from  the 
Mayor,  Corporation  Counsel,  Street  Commissioner,  Chief  of  Po- 
lice, and  the  chairman  of  the  various  committees,  and  all  other 
officers  of  said  city,  all  necessary  information  in  relation  to  ac- 
counts due  the  city  that  may  come  to  their  knowledge  ;  and  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  herein  named  officers  on  application  to  give  the 
Clerk  said  necessary  information. 


8  CHAPTER    II. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

SEC.  20.  Bills  to  be  Collected.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  City 
Clerk,  unless  otherwise  directed  by  the  Common  Council,  to  put 
all  of  said  bills  due  the  city  in  the  hands  of  the  Chief  of  Police  for 
collection. 

SEC.  21.  Duties  of  Auditor.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Audi- 
tor to  audit  annually  the  accounts  of  every  city  officer,  or  other 
person  who  receives  funds  on  account  of  said  city,  except  the 
accounts  of  the  Treasurer. 

SEC.  22.  Sinking  Fund  Committee.  The  Mayor,  President 
pro  tempore  of  the  Common  Council  and  Treasurer  of  said  city, 
and  their  successors,  shall  ex  officio  be  a  committee  to  be  known  as 
the  Sinking  Fund  Committee,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  receive, 
manage  and  invest  any  funds  that  are  now,  or  may  hereafter  be, 
appropriated  to  any  sinking  fund  for  the  extinguishment  of  any 
indebtedness  or  liability  of  said  city,  and  said  committee  shall  re- 
port annually,  to  the  Council,  at  its  first  meeting  in  April,  the 
condition  of  all  such  sinking  funds,  and  the  investment  thereof. 

SEC.  23.  Sinking  Fund  Money.  The  funds  belonging  to  any 
sinking  fund  of  said  city  shall  not  be  used  for  any  other  purpose, 
except  that  for  which  said  funds  were  particularly  set  apart  and 
appropriated. 


CHAPTER  II. 

AMUSEMENTS. 

Be  it  ordained  by  tne  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  New 
Britain  : 

SECTION  i.  Licenses  Required.  Every  person  who  shall,  with- 
out obtaining  a  license  from  the  Common  Council,  or  the  Com- 
mittee appointed  by  said  Council  for  that  purpose,  make  or 
knowingly  aid  or  assist  in,  making  a  public  display  of  any  sport, 
amusement,  performance,  concert,  opera,  or  other  public  exhibi- 


CHAPTER    II.  9 

AMUSEMENTS. 

tion,  within  the  limits  of  said  city,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty 
of  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than  one  hundred  dollars  for  each 
offence,  and  each  separate  exhibition  shall  be  deemed  a  separate 
offence  within  the  meaning  of  this  ordinance. 

SEC.  2.  Licenses  to  be  Issued.  The  Committee  on  Licenses  of 
the  Common  Council  shall  have  power,  unless  otherwise  directed 
by  said  Council,  to  grant  written  licenses,  to  be  issued  as  provided 
in  Section  6  of  this  ordinance,  to  persons  applying  for  the  same, 
for  public  amusement,  concert,  opera,  or  other  performance,  as 
they  the  committee,  shall  consider  proper  to  be  licensed,  and  for 
such  time  as  they  shall  deem  fit,  which  license  may,  at  any  time, 
be  revoked  by  the  said  committee  or  by  the  Common  Council. 

SEC.  3.  Payment  of  Fee.  Such  person  applying  as  aforesaid 
shall  pay  to  the  clerk  of  said  committee  for  the  use  of  said  city, 
such  license  fee  as  the  Council  shall  designate. 

SEC.  4.  Unlicensed  Exhibitions ;  Penalty.  No  corporation  or 
person,  being  the  owner,  proprietor,  agent,  or  janitor  of  any  pub- 
lic hall  in  said  city,  shall  permit  such  hall  to  be  used  for  the 
purpose  of  giving  any  concert,  opera,  play,  or  other  public  amuse- 
ment or  exhibition,  without  having  first  received  from  the  proprie- 
tor or  agent  of  such  concert,  opera,  play,  or  other  amusement  as 
aforesaid,  a  license,  in  writing,  from  the  Committee  on  Licenses, 
and  any  person  who  shall,  by  so  doing,  offend  against  this  ordi- 
nance, shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty  of  twenty-five  dollars  for 
each  offence. 

SEC.  5.  What  Deemed  a  Public  Hall.  Every  place  in  said  city 
wherein  any  public  amusement,  concert,  opera,  play,  or  other  pub- 
lic exhibition  shall  be  held,  shall  be  deemed  a  public  hall,  within 
the  meaning  of  this  ordinance. 

SEC.  6.  Clerk  of  Committee  ;  Duties.  The  City  Clerk  shall  be 
clerk  of  said  committee  on  licenses,  and  under  their  direction  shall 
issue  all  licenses  granted  by  said  committee,  and  shall  pay  over  all 
moneys  received  therefor  to  the  City  Treasurer  as  often  as  once 


10  CHAPTER     III. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

a  month,  and  shall  keep  a  record  of  all  licenses  so  issued,  together 
with  the  date  thereof,  the  name  of  the  licensee  to  whom  given,  the 
amount  of  money  received  therefor,  and  the  name  or  style  of  the 
exhibition  licensed,  which  date,  price  and  name  of  licensee  and 
exhibition  shall  also  appear  on  the  face  of  the  license  ;  and  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  owner,  proprietor,  agent  or  janitor  receiving  any 
such  license  to  return  the  same  to  the  clerk  of  said  committee  as 
often  as  once  in  three  months,  to  be  by  him  examined  and  lodged 
on  file,  together  with  such  record  in  the  office  of  the  City  Clerk, 
but  said  clerk  shall  not  be  entitled  to  receive  from  the  city  any 
extra  compensation  for  service  rendered  to  said  committee. 

SEC.  7.  Destruction  of  Play  Bills  ;  Penalty.  No  person  shall 
destroy,  remove,  tear,  or  otherwise  deface  any  bill,  posted  in  such 
places  as  may  be  permitted,  descriptive  of  any  performance  to  be 
exhibited,  duly  licensed  as  aforesaid. 

Every  person  violating  any  provision  of  this  section,  shall  forfeit 
and  pay  a  penalty  of  two  dollars  for  every  such  offense. 

SEC.  8.  Violations  Reported.  All  violations  of  this  ordinance 
shall  be  forthwith  reported  to  the  Prosecuting  Attorney  for  prose- 
cution. 


CHAPTER  III. 

ANIMALS. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  New  Britain : 
SECTION  i.  Cattle,  etc.,  Not  to  Go  at  Large ;  Penalty.  No 
owner  or  person  having  the  charge  of  cattle,  horses,  sheep,  goats 
or  swine  shall  suffer  or  permit  the  same  to  go  or  be  at  large  in  any 
of  the  streets  or  squares  of  said  city,  or  shall  suffer  or  permit  the 
same  to  be  upon  any  of  the  streets  or  public  squares  of  said  city 
for  the  purpose  of  being  pastured  there. 

Any  person  offending  against  any  of  the  provisions  of  Section  i 
of  this  ordinance  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty  of  not  less  than 
five  dollars  nor  more  than  twenty  dollars  for  each  offence. 


CHAPTER     IV.  11 

CITY     SURVEYOR. 


CHAPTER  IY. 

CITY  SURVEYOR. 
Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  New  Britain: 

SECTION  i.  How  and  When  Elected.  There  shall  be  an  officer 
of  said  city  of  New  Britain  to  be  called  the  City  Surveyor,  and 
within  thirty  days  after  the  adoption  of  this  ordinance  the  Com- 
mon Council  shall  proceed  to  elect  such  officer  who  shall  hold 
office  until  the  first  day  of  May,  1897,  and  until  his  successor  has 
been  duly  elected  and  qualified.  And  annually  hereafter  in  the 
month  of  April,  and  after  the  third  Tuesday  of  said  month  the 
Common  Council  shall  elect  a  City  Surveyor,  who  shall  hold  office 
for  one  year  from  and  after  the  first  day  of  May  following,  and 
until  his  successor  is  elected  and  qualified. 

Should  a  vacancy  in  said  office  occur,  the  Common  Council 
shall  proceed  to  fill  the  vacancy  for  the  unexpired  term,  as  soon  as 
may  be. 

SEC.  2.  Custody  of  Maps,  etc;  Designation  of  Street  Lints.  The 
City  Surveyor  shall  have  the  custody  of  all  the  maps  of  said  city, 
exceptirg  only  those  pertaining  exclusively  to  the  Water  and 
Sewer  Departments ;  and  shall  see  that  all  maps  and  other  records 
in  his  charge  are  kept  in  a  safe  or  vault ;  shall  make  and  prepare 
all  surveys,  maps,  profiles,  estimates,  and  specifications  required 
by  the  Mayor,  Common  Council,  the  Street  Commissioner,  Street 
Committee,  and  the  Boards  of  Water,  Sewer,  Subway  and  Street 
Commissioners,  as  the  needs  of  the  several  departments  of  the  city 
may  require. 

And  it  shall  also  be  his  duty  to  designate  the  street  line  for  any 
property  owner,  who  contemplates  building  a  fence  on  the  line  of 
any  street  which  has  been  regularly  laid  out  by  the  city. 

SEC.  3.  Field  Book.  The  City  Surveyor  shall  keep  an  accurate 
and  complete  field  book,  which  shall  contain  the  notes  or  data  of 


18  CHAPTER    IV. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

all  grades,  levels,  measurements,  surveys,  etc.,  of  all  streets, 
sewers,  or  other  public  work  in  his  department  ordered  by  the 
Common  Council  or  other  proper  authority  during  any  one  year. 
At  the  end  of  each  year  said  field  book  shall  be  deposited  with  the 
City  Clerk  and  shall  be  the  property  of  the  city. 

SEC.  4.  Materials  and  Stationery.  All  materials  for  maps, 
drawings,  etc.,  all  books  and  stationery  required  by  the  City  Sur- 
veyor in  the  performance  of  the  duties  of  his  office,  shall  be  fur- 
nished him  at  the  expense  of  the  city  in  accordance  with  the  ordi- 
nance regulating  supplies. 

SEC.  5.  Annual  Report.  The  City  Surveyor  shall  annually,  on 
or  before  the  loth  day  of  April  in  each  year,  make  report  to  the 
Common  Council,  which  report  shall  comprise  a  full  statement  of 
all  street  improvements,  sewers  or  other  public  work  with  such 
details  of  each  as  may  be  necessary  to  properly  exemplify  the 
transactions  of  his  department. 

SEC.  6.  Salary.  The  salary  of  the  City  Surveyor  shall  be  two 
thousand  dollars  ($2.000.00)  per  annum,  payable  monthly,  which 
shall  include  payment  of  assistant,  office  rent  and  light.  Said 
salary  shall  be  in  full  for  all  his  expenses,  and  the  services  which 
he  may  render  to  said  city. 

SEC.  7.  Bond.  The  City  Surveyor  shall,  before  he  shall  enter 
into  his  official  duties,  give  bond  with  sufficient  sureties  in  accord- 
ance with  Section  4,  Chapter  XVI II  of  the  city  ordinance,  in  the 
sum  of  $5,000.  And  in  case  of  refusal  or  neglect  of  said  surveyor 
to  give  such  bond,  his  office  shall.be  deemed  vacant. 


s  CHAPTER    V.  13 

CONTRACTS. 

CHAPTER  V. 

CONTRACTS. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  New  Britain : 

SECTION  i.  Contracts;  Nome  Labor.  Whenever  the  Street 
Commissioner,  or  the  Sewer  or  Water  Commissioners,  or  any 
other  officer  of  said  city,  having  charge  of  any  public  improve- 
ments, shall  judge  it  to  be  for  the  interest  of  the  city,  such  Com- 
missioner, Commissioners,  or  other  officer  in  charge,  may  make 
contracts  for  labor  and  materials  for  such  public  improvements, 
and  such  contracts,  when  ratified  by  the  Common  Council,  shall 
be  valid  and  binding  on  said  city,  and  all  contracts  for  such  labor 
and  materials  shall  be  in  writing  and  executed  in  triplicate,  of 
which  one  shall  be  kept  by  the  Commissioner,  Commissioners,  or 
other  officer  aforesaid,  one  delivered  to  the  City  Clerk,  and  kept 
on  file,  and  one  retained  by  the  contractor ;  and  no  such  Com- 
missioner, Commissioners,  or  other  officer  having  charge  of  any 
public  improvements,  shall  have  any  interest,  direct  or  indirect,  in 
any  contract  relating  thereto  ;  nor  shall  such  contract  be  executed, 
unless  good  and  satisfactoiy  security  for  the  faithful  performance 
of  the  same  shall  be  given  by  the  contractor  and  approved  by  said 
Commissioner,  Commissioners,  or  other  officer  in  charge,  and  in 
making  such  contracts  home  labor  shall  be  given  the  preference. 

SEC.  2.  Advertising  for  Proposals.  The  said  Commissioner, 
Commissioners,  other  officer  in  charge  as  aforesaid,  when  not 
otherwise  specially  authorized  by  the  Common  Council,  shall  ad- 
vertise in  one  or  more  newspapers  in  said  city  for  sealed  proposals 
for  all  such  contracts,  specifying  the  time  and  place,  when  and 
where  the  same  shall  be  received  ;  and  such  proposals,  in  order  to 
be  received  and  acted  upon,  shall  set  forth  a  specified  sum  or  price 
to  be  paid  for  all  such  labor  and  materials,  without  condition, 
limitation,  or  alteration,  and  shall  be  accompanied  with  a  bond 


14  CHAPTER    VI. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

with  satisfactory  sureties,  payable  to  the  Mayor  and  his  succes- 
sors in  office,  conditioned  for  the  faithful  execution  of  the  pro- 
posal, if  the  same  shall  be  accepted  in  behalf  of  the  city. 

SEC.  3.  Assignment  of  Contract.  No  such  contract  shall  be 
assigned  or  transferred  without  the  written  assent  of  the  Mayor, 
and  the  officer  or  officers  having  charge  of  the  public  improvement 
to  which  such  contract  relates. 


CHAPTER  VI. 

ELECTION  OR  APPOINTMENT  OF  OFFICERS. 

Be  it  ordained  by. the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  New  Britain : 

SECTION  i.  When  and  How  Chosen;  Term  of  Office.  All  officers 
chosen  under  the  Charter  by  the  Common  Council,  the  times  and 
methods  of  whose  election  or  appointment  are  not  specially  pro- 
vided for  by  that  instrument,  shall  be  so  chosen  by  the  Common 
Council  annually  during  the  month  of  April,  and  shall  hold  office 
for  the  term  of  one  year  from  the  first  day  of  May  next  succeeding 
their  election  or  appointment,  and  until  their  successors  are  chosen 
and  qualified.  The  person  receiving  a  majority  of  the  votes  for 
any  office  filled  at  the  meeting  at  which  any  such  election  or  ap- 
pointment is  made,  shall  be  declared  elected  or  appointed  to  the 
office  for  which  he  receives  such  votes.  Each  and  every  officer  so 
chosen  as  aforesaid  shall  be  an  elector  of  said  city. 

SEC.  2.  Vacancies.  In  case  of  a  vacancy  occurring  in  any 
of  such  offices  the  same  shall  be  filled  for  the  unexpired  term  in 
the  manner  above  provided  at  any  meeting  of  the  Common  Council 
subsequent  to  the  occurrence  of  such  vacancy. 


CHAPTER    VII.  15 

ERECTION     OF     BUILDINGS. 

CHAPTER  VII. 

ERECTION  OF  BUILDINGS. 
Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  New  Britain  : 

SECTION  i.  Building  Permits  Required.  No  persons  or  corpo- 
rations shall  hereafter  erect,  add  to,  move  from  place  to  place,  or 
station  any  building  in  said  city,  deposit  any  building  material  in 
any  street,  or  assist  in  either  of  said  acts  without  a  license  or  per- 
mit first  issued  therefor  to  the  owner  or  person  in  charge  of  said 
building,  to  be  obtained  in  the  following  manner,  viz  :  The 
owner,  proprietor  or  agent,  proposing  to  do  any  such  acts,  shall 
make  written  application,  subscribed  by  him,  to  the  city  clerk  for 
such  license  or  permit,  and  with  such  application  shall  state  the 
location,  height,  material,  purpose  of  and  contiguity  to  the  other 
buildings  of  the  building  for  which  such  permit  is  required  ;  the 
applicant  shall  also  state  the  height  and  thickness  of  the  outer 
stone  and  brick  walls  and  the  material  of  which  the  roof  or  cover- 
ing is  made  and  the  estimated  time  from  which  such  license  or 
permit  shall  be  granted,  said  application  shall  be  referred  by  the 
clerk  to  the  committee  on  building  and  encroachments. 

Said  committee  may,  at  any  time,  grant  said  permits,  or,  if  they 
deem  it  for  the  public  good,  or  if  any  person  objects  to  the  grant- 
ing of  said  permits,  shall  retain  any  application  until  it  can  be 
acted  upon  by  the  Common  Council,  and  a  record  of  all  such  per- 
mits, giving  the  particulars  above  stated,  shall  be  kept  in  a  book 
provided  for  that  purpose. 

SEC.  2.  Restrictions;  Fire  District;  Electric  Wiring.  No  per- 
son, persons,  or  corporations  shall  erect,  or  add  to  any  building 
within  the  fire  district,  unless  the  outer  walls  of  the  same  be  wholly 
constructed  of  stone,  brick,  or  other  fire-proof  material,  and  the 
roof  covered  with  incombustible  material. 

Said  Fire  District  shall  include  the  portion  of  the  City  described 
as  follows  : 


FIRE     DISTRICT. 


CHAPTER  VII.  17 

ERECTION     OF     BUILDINGS. 

All  within  three  hundred  (300)  feet  outside  a  line  from  center  of 
street,  commencing  at  the  corner  of  Clark  and  Lee  streets,  to  Win- 
ter, Winter  to  Summer,  Summer  to  East  Main,  East  Main  to  Elm, 
Elm  to  the  tracks  of  the  New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford  Rail- 
road, along  tracks  to  a  point  on  Pine  Street  extension,  through 
Pine  to  Maple,  Maple  to  Pearl,  Pearl  to  South  Main  along  the 
East  side  of  the  Park,  South  Main  to  Kensington,  and  within  three 
hundred  (300)  feet  along  Kensington  to  Webster,  Webster  to  Arch, 
through  the  center  of  Arch  and  within  three  hundred  (300)  feet  of 
Walnut  to  South  High,  South  High  to  West  Main  across  West 
Main  to  center  of  High  street,  High  to  Lafayette  to  Beaver, 
Beaver  to  a  point  on  Beaver  opposite  the  center  of  Lee  street, 
thence  through  the  center  of  Lee  street  to  place  of  beginning. 

No  person,  persons  or  corporations  shall  cause  electric  wires  to 
be  placed  in  any  building  in  the  city,  without  securing  a  permit 
from  the  superintendent  of  the  electrical  department,  who  shall 
inspect  said  building  and  issue  his  certificate  that  the  said  wires 
are  safely  installed. 

SEC.  3.  Materials  and  Construction,  of  Walls.  All  buildings 
hereafter  erected  within  said  Fire  District,  shall  have  all  walls, 
whether  the  same  shall  be  outside  of  the  party  walls,  constructed 
of  stone,  brick  or  iron,  properly  bonded  and  solidly  put  together, 
and  all  such  walls  shall  be  built  to  a  line  and  carried  up  plumb 
and  straight,  and  the  several  .component  parts  of  such  building 
shall  be  built  and  constructed  as  hereafter  provided. 

SEC.  4.  Outside,  Party  Walls,  etc.  The  outside  and  party  walls 
of  all  buildings  hereafter  erected  or  built,  shall  not  be  less  than 
eight  (8)  inches  thick,  and  all  such  walls  as  exceed  fifteen  feet  in 
height  (except  party  walls  and  the  walls  of  two-story  dwellings) 
shall  not  be  less  than  twelve  (12)  inches  thick,  and  all  such  walls 
as  exceed  forty  feet  in  height  (except  party  walls,)  shall  not  be 
less  than  sixteen  (16)  inches  thick  to  the  under  side  of  the  second 
tier  of  beams,  provided  the  under  side  of  the  said  second  tier  of 
beams  be  not  less  than  twenty  (20)  feet  from  the  level  of  the  side- 


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walk,  such  walls,  except  party  walls,  shall  be  sixteen  (16)  inches 
thick  to  the  under  side  of  the  third  tier  of  beams  above  the  said 
level ;  and  every  such  wall  shall  be  built  with  headers  every  sixth 
course,  except  that  the  walls  of  dwellings  over  two  stories  high, 
shall  not  be  less  than  twelve  (12)  inches  thick  (except  party  walls 
to  the  beams  of  the  upper  story. )  In  all  buildings  hereafter 
erected  in  said  Fire  District,  situated  on  the  street  corner,  other 
than  dwellings,  bearing  walls  thereof  (*hat  is  the  wall  on  the  street 
upon  which  the  beam  rests)  shall  be  four  (4)  inches  thicker  in  all 
cases  than  is  otherwise  provided  for  by  this  ordinance. 

All  buildings  hereafter  erected  within  said  Fire  District  which 
are  intended  for  offices,  tenements  or  small  stores,  shall  be  so  con- 
structed that  they  shall  be  fire  proof,  partition  walls  not  to  be 
more  than  twenty-five  feet  apart,  shall  be  built  from  cellar  to  roof, 
the  same  as  other  party  walls,  except  as  hereinafter  provided,  all 
air,  light,  or  elevator  shafts  to  be  inclosed  by  walls  of  fire  proof 
material,  all  openings  in  such  partition  walls,  from  store  to  store 
or  tenement,  shall  have  fire  proof  doors,  which  shall  be  closed 
every  night  or  at  all  times  when  such  places  are  unoccupied. 
AY  hen  buildings  are  built  for  two  or  more  stores  in  which  large 
halls  are  to  be  made,  the  floor  above  the  stores  is  to  be  of  fire  proof 
construction,  joists  to  be  <  f  iron,  spans  between  filled  in  with  brick, 
hollow  brick  or  terra  cotta,  and  the  partitions  above  to  be  carried 
on  iron  beams.  All  party  walls  of  any  buildings  over  fifteen  (15) 
feet  high  shall  be  built  up  and  extended  not  less  than  eight  (8) 
inches  above  the  roof  and  shall  be  coped  with  fire  proof  material. 
All  outside  walls  and  chimneys  of  buildings  hereafter  erected, 
shall  not  be  less  than  twenty-two  (22)  courses  of  brick  to  each  five 
(5)  feet  in  height  of  the  same. 

The  foundation  walls  to  any  permanent  building  in  said  Fire 
District,  shall  not  be  less  than  four  (4)  feet  below  the  surface  ex- 
posed to  frost,  resting  upon  solid  ground,  piles,  concrete  or  other 
solid  substance  and  shall  be  of  good  ledge-stone  or  other  material, 
equally  as  good  as  stone,  laid  in  cement  mortar.  Foundation 


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ERECTION     OF     BUILDINGS. 

walls  shall  be  not  less  than  eighteen  (18)  inches  thick  for  two 
story  buildings  and  twelve  (12)  inch  upper  walls,  foundation  walls 
to  increase  in  thickness  four  (4)  inches  per  story  or  for  each  addi-. 
tional  four  inches  of  wall  that  it  carries. 

SEC.  5.  Faced  Walls;  Mortar ;  Backings.  All  walls  which  are 
faced  with  ashlar  are  to  be  anchored  to  the  backing  and  must  have 
alternate  headers  and  stretchers  in  each  course,  or  alternate  head- 
ing and  stretching  course,  the  backing  of  brick  to  be  not  less  than 
eight  (8)  inches  thick,  and  all  eight  inch  backing  shall  be  laid  up 
in  cement  or  lime  mortar,  and  shall  not  be  built  to  a  greater  height 
than  prescribed  for  twelve  inch  brick  walls.  The  mortar  used  for 
all  foundations,  for  all  buildings,  erected  within  the  fire  district, 
shall  be  composed  of  not  less  than  one  part  of  cement  to  two  and 
one  half  parts  of  good  sharp  sand  (Plainville  preferred).  All 
heading  courses  shall  be  of  good  hard,  perfect  brick. 

The  backings  in  all  walls,  of  whatever  material  they  may  be 
composed,  shall  be  of  such  thickness  as  to  make  the  walls  inde- 
pendent of  facing,  conform  as  to  thickness  with  the  requirements  of 
the  ordinance. 

SEC.  6.  Building  Walls  United.  The  front,  rear,  side,  partition 
and  party  walls  of  any  building,  hereafter  to  be  erected,  shall  be 
carried  up  together,  and  well  united  and  bonded  at  the  point  of 
contact.  All  stone  used  for  facing  of  any  building,  except  where 
built  with  alternate  headers  and  stretchers  as  hereinbefore  set  forth, 
shall  be  strongly  anchored  with  iron  anchors  in  each  stone  of  more 
than  twelve  (12)  inches  in  height  when  said  stone^is  not  equal  in 
width  of  the  base  with  height  thereof,  and  all  such  anchors  shall  be 
let  into  the  stone  at  least  one  inch.  The  front,  rear,  side  and  party 
walls  shall  be  anchored  at  each  tier  of  beams  at  intervals  of  not 
more  than  six  (6)  feet  apart,  with  good  strong  wrought  iron  an- 
chors of  not  less  than  one-quarter  of  an  inch  by  one  and  one-half 
inch  iron,  well  built  into  the  side  walls,  and  fastened  to  the  side  of 
the  beams  by  three  nails  made  of  wrought  iron,  at  least  one-quarter 
of  an  inch  in  diameter. 


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NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

SEC.  7.  Chimneys,  etc.  All  chimneys  and  all  flues  in  any  build- 
ing hereafter  erected,  altered  or  repaired,  without  reference  to  the 
purpose  for  which  they  may  be  used,  shall  have  the  joints  struck 
smooth  on  the  inside,  and  no  pargeting  mortar  shall  be  used  on 
the  inside  ;  and  all  tiling  which  shall  be  used  for  chimneys  shall  be 
enclosed  with  brick.  All  flues  that  are  to  be  connected  with  fur- 
naces, are  to  have  fire  clay  tile  linings  commencing  two  (2)  feet 
below  the  first  floor,  and  continuing  the  full  height  of  the  chimney. 

No  chimney  shall  be  started,  or  built  on  any  floor  or  beam,  and 
in  no  case  where  the  breast  of  the  chimney  shall  project  more  than 
four  (4)  inches  shall  it  be  commenced  in  any  wall,  but  shall  be 
started  from  the  foundation.  All  hearths  shall  be  supported  by 
arches  of  stone  or  brick,  no  chimney  in  buildings  already  erected, 
or  hereafter  to  be  built,  shall  be  cut  off  below,  or  in  part  and  sup- 
ported by  wood,  but  shall  be  wholly  supported  by  stone,  brick,  or 
iron. 

SEC.  8.  Wood-work  Separated  from  Chimneys,  etc.  In  no  build- 
ing hereafter  erected,  whether  the  same  be  frame,  or  otherwise, 
shall  any  timber,  studding,  furring  or  other  wood  be  fastened  to 
the  same  or  within  two  inches  of  the  outside  of  any  chimney  or 
other  conveyance  of  fire,  smoke,  or  heat.  All  wooden  beams  and 
other  timbers  in  the  party  wall  of  every  building  hereafter  to  be 
erected  or  built  of  stone,  brick,  or  iron,  shall  be  separated  from 
the  beam  or  timber  entering  in  the  opposite  side  of  the  wall,  by  at 
least  four  inches  of  solid  mason  work. 

SEC.  9.  Roofs  Built  and  Coveted  The  planking  and  sheathing 
of  the  roof  of  every  building  hereafter  erected  and  built,  shall  in 
no  case  be  extended  across  the  party  wall  thereof,  and  every  such 
roof  or  any  such  building  shall  be  covered  with  slate,  tin,  zinc, 
copper,  or  iron,  or  other  equally  fire  proof  material. 

SEC.  10.  Raising  of  Building*.  If  any  brick  front  or  wooden 
building  already  erected  within  said  fire  district  shall  require  new 
roofing,  it  shall  and  may  be  lawful  for  the  owner  or  owners  thereof, 
to  raise  the  same,  for  the  purpose  of  making  a  flat  roof  thereon, 


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ERECTION     OP     BUILDINGS. 


provided  that  such  new  roof  shall  be  covered  with  slate,  tin,  iron, 
copper,  zinc,  or  other  fire  proof  materials,  and  provided  also  that 
such  building,  when  so  raised,  shall  not  at  the  highest  point  thereof 
exceed  the  height  of  the  peak  of  said  building  before  the  altera- 
tion, provided  that  such  alteration  shall  only  be  done  under  the 
direction  and  permit  of  the  Committee  on  Buildings  and  Encroach- 
ments, and  Inspector  of  Buildings,  after  approval  of  the  Common 
Council  of  said  City. 

SEC.  n.  Smoke  Pipes;  Wooden  Buildings.  No  smoke  pipe  in 
any  building  with  wooden  or  combustible  floors  or  ceilings  shall 
afterwards  enter  any  flue,  unless  the  said  pipe  shall  be  at  least 
twelve  inches  from  either  floor  or  ceilings,  and  in  all  cases  where 
smoke  pipes  pass  through  stud  or  wooden  partitions  of  any  kind, 
whether  the  same  be  plastered  or  not,  they  shall  be  guarded  by 
either  double  collar  of  galvanized  or  cast  iron,  painted  on  both 
sides,  with  at  least  one  inch  space,  or  holes  for  ventilation,  or  by 
a  single  galvanized  or  cast  iron  collar,  painted  on  both  sides,  sur- 
rounded by  a  brick  collar,  of  not  less  than  eight  inches  in  thick- 
ness between  the  collars,  their  whole  length,  or  by  a  soapstone, 
terra  cotta  ring  or  tile,  not  less  than  two  inches  in  thickness  and 
extending  through  the  partition,  or  by  a  solid  coating  of  plaster  of 
paris  three  inches  from  the  pipe. 

'  No  wooden  or  frame  building  within  said  fire  district  which  may 
hereafter  be  damaged  by  fire  or  otherwise,  shall  be  repaired  or 
rebuilt,  nor  shall  any  building  be  moved,  or  repaired,  or  added  to 
upon  the  exterior  with  wooden  material  unless  permission  so  to  do 
be  granted  by  two-thirds  vote  of  the  Common  Council  of  said 
City,  after  application  to  move,  repair  or  rebuild,  has  been  made 
to  the  Committee  on  Building  and  Encroachments  of  said  Com- 
mon Council.  All  applications  must  be  signed  .by  the  Building 
Inspector. 

SEC.  12.  To  Obtain  Building  Permits.  Before  the  erection, 
construction  or  alteration  of  any  building  or  part  thereof,  or  shed, 
extension  or  piazza.,  either  within  or  without  the  fire  district,  or  of 


22  CHAPTER    VII. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

any  block,  dwelling,  factory,  store,  store  house  or  building  of  any 
description  which  are  to  be  used  for  human  occupation  (in  which 
fire  will  be  used  or  that  will  have,  or  be  connected  with,  a  plumb- 
ing or  drainage  system)  is  commenced,  the  owner,  architect,  or 
builder  shall  submit  to  the  Inspector  of  Buildings  a  clear  statement 
in  writing  of  the  plans  and  specifications  for  the  erection  or  altera- 
tion thereof,  together  with  the  size  and  location  of  the  land  upon 
which  the  structure  referred  to  by  said  specifications  is  to  be 
erected  or  altered,  and  the  distance  of  such  proposed  erection, 
alteration  or  construction  from  the  street  line  (a  record  of  which 
shall  be  kept  by  said  Inspector  of  Buildings)  and  the  erection, 
construction  or  alteration  of  said  building  or  part  thereof,  shed, 
extension  or  piazza,  shall  not  be  commenced  or  proceeded  with 
until  the  said  owner,  architect  or  builder  shall  receive  a  certificate 
or  permit  from  the  Committee  on  Buildings  and  Encroachments, 
after  examination  by  the  Inspector  of  Buildings  into  such  plans 
and  specifications,  and  they  are  satisfied  that  the  requirements  of 
the  building  ordinances  are  to  be  complied  with. 

Within  the  fire  district  all  permits  shall  be  approved  by  the 
Common  Council  of  said  City. 

SEC.  13.  Duties  of  Building  Inspector.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of 
the  Inspector  of  Buildings,  in  addition  to  the  duties  otherwise  pro- 
vided for  by  the  ordinances  of  said  city  to  examine  the  condition 
of  all  buildings  being  erected  or  undergoing  alterations,  and  notify 
the  owners  of  said  building  of  any  violation  of  any  part  of  this 
ordinance,  and  also  report  the  same  to  said  Committee  on  Build- 
ings and  Encroachments,  or  to  the  Common  Council  of  said  City, 
either  of  whom  shall  cause  the  notice  to  be  served  of  such  viola- 
tion, on  the  person,  persons  or  corporation  to  whom  was  granted 
the  permit  for  the  erection  or  alteration  of  such  building,  or  struc- 
ture, or  upon  said  person,  or  persons,  found  so  violating  this  ordi- 
nance. Said  notice  shall  specify  said  violation  and  order  its 
remedy,  and  the  manner  thereof,  and  the  time  within  which  the 
order  and  remedy  shall  be  complied  with,  and  a  copy  of  such 


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ERECTION     OF     BUILDINGS. 

order  shall  be  left  with  the  owner  of  the  land  or  premises,  or  their 
acting  agents,  respecting  which  such  order  is  made,  or  at  his  or 
their  usual  place  of  abode  or  business,  and  the  same  shall  be  con- 
sidered sufficient  notice  under  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance. 

SEC.  14.  Changes  in  Plans,  etc.;  Penalty'.  Every  person  who 
shall  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance  by  omitting  to 
report  in  writing  to  said  Committee  on  Buildings  and  Encroach- 
ments, or  to  said  Inspector  of  Buildings,  any  change  of  plans  or 
specifications  from  that  upon  which  said  permit  was  granted,  with- 
in thirty  days  after  said  change  is  in  said  plans  and  specifications 
effected,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  to  the  city  the  sum  of  fifty  dollars  ; 
any  one  who  shall  continue  to  violate  any  of  said  provisions  by 
non-compliance  therewith,  or  with  the  notice  and  order  of  said 
Common  Council,  or  said  Committee  on  Buildings  and  Encroach- 
ments, shall  forfeit  and  pay  to  the  city  the  sum  of  fifty  dollars  for 
each  and  every  month  or  fractional  part  of  any  month  of  said  vio- 
lation, on  non-compliance  with  said  notice  and  order. 

SEC.  15.  Ordinance  Not  Retroactive.  The  provisions  of  this 
ordinance  shall  not  apply  to  buildings  in  course  of  construction  or 
alteration  for  which  a  permit  has  been  granted  at  the  time  it  be- 
comes a  law. 

SEC.  1 6.  Fresfor  Permits.  There  shall  be  a  fee  of  $i  charged 
for  each  permit  for  buildings  not  to  exceed  in  cost  $1,000  ;  a  fee 
of  $2  for  each  permit  for  buildings  not  to  exceed  in  cost  $2,000  ; 
a  fee  of  $3  for  each  permit  for  buildings  not  to  exceed  in  cost 
$3,000  ;  a  fee  of  $4  for  each  permit  for  buildings  not  to  exceed  in 
cost  $4,000,  and  a  fee  of  $5  for  each  permit  for  buildings  to  cost 
over  $4,000,  said  cost  of  buildings  to  be  determined  by  the  In- 
spector of  Buildings  and  Committee  on  Buildings  and  Encroach- 
ments. Said  fees  must  be  paid  by  the  applicant  to  the  city  clerk 
at  the  time  of  said  application  and  the  money  is  to  be  returned  if 
the  permit  is  not  granted.  All  moneys  received  as  fees,  as  afore- 
said, for  permits,  to  be  accounted  for  and  paid  into  the  city 
treasury  once  in  every  month. 


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NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

SEC.  17.  Removal  of  Buildings;  Jurisdiction  of  Inspector.  It 
shall,  however,  be  lawful,  for  any  person,  persons,  or  corporations 
to  move  buildings  within  the  fire  district  from  the  front  of  their 
property  to  the  rear  of  the  same  lot  when  a  permit  has  been  issued 
to  said  person,  persons,  or  corporations  to  erect  on  the  front  of 
said  lot,  a  building  or  buildings,  in  accordance  with  this  ordinance, 
provided,  however,  that  the  location  of  the  building  or  buildings 
moved  shall  not  be  near  other  wooden  buildings  ;  the  Committee 
on  Buildings  and  Encroachments  shall  investigate  in  such  cases  to 
see  whether  in  their  opinion  such  removal  or  removals  will  increase 
the  fire  risk,  and  shall  report  to  the  Common  Council,  which  shall 
act  on  it,  the  same  as  on  other  reports  of  the  same  committee. 

All  buildings  erected  in  this  city,  whether  in  the  fire  district  or 
not,  which  shall  be  constructed  one  story  or  more  in  height,  or,  as 
provided  in  Section  i2th,  shall  be  under  the  supervision  of  the 
Building  Inspector.  The  same  fees  shall  be  paid  on  permits 
granted  under  this  section  as  for  buildings  erected  within  the  fire 
district. 

SEC.  1 8.  Stay  of  Progress,  etc.;  Fire  Escapes;  Protection  of 
Woodwork,  etc.  ;  Penalty.  Whenever  said  Inspector  shall  find  in 
any  building  in  course  of  construction,  a  non-compliance  with  any 
of  the  preceding  sections,  he  may  order  a  stay  of  progress  in  the 
construction  until  he  can  report  the  same,  and  orders  may  be 
issued  by  the  Common  Council,  or  the  Committee  on  Buildings 
and  Encroachments  for  the  correction  of  such  defects,  and  any 
person  who  shall  violate  any  such  order  for  stay  of  progress,  shall 
forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty  of  fifty  (50)  dollars.  The  Inspector 
shall  see  that  the  State  law  as  regards  fire  escapes  and  outside 
doors,  swinging  outwardly  is  complied  with,  and  if  not,  to  report 
the  same  to  the  proper  authorities  for  enforcement.  No  ceilings, 
walls,  partitions,  beams,  timber  or  wood  of  any  kind,  is  to  be 
within  four  (4)  feet  of  any  boiler,  hot  air,  hot  water,  or  steam 
furnace,  unless  the  same  shall  have  a  fire  proof  protection  of  brick, 
metal  or  asbestos,  and  all  pipes  used  for  conveying  heat,  where 


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within  an  inch  of  wood  must  have  an  outer  collar  with  an  airspace 
between,  or  the  wood  protected  by  asbestos  or  metal  of  some  de- 
scription. 

SEC.  ig.  Enforcement  of  Orders  of  Council.  Whenever  the  In- 
spector of  Buildings  presents  a  complaint  for  violation  of  the  ordi- 
nances of  the  city,  or  of  the  statute  laws  of  this  State  regarding 
the  construction  of  Buildings,  to  the  Common  Council,  or  to  the 
Committee  on  Buildings  and  Encroachments,  said  Common  Coun- 
cil may  issue  such  orders  as  it  or  they  may  deem  necessary  for  the 
remedy  of  the  defects  complained  of.  In  case  such  order  is  not 
complied  with  within  the  time  specified  therein,  said  Common 
Council,  or  said  Committee,  shall  cause  the  matter  or  thing  thereby 
required  to  be  performed,  to  be  done  at  the  expense  of  the  owner, 
or  owners,  of  the  premises  respecting  which  the  order  is  made,  and 
such  expense  shall  be  collected  from  said  owner,  or  owners,  by  an 
action  of  debt,  brought  in  the  name  of  the  city. 

SEC.  20.  Inspector  to  Keep  Record.  The  Inspector  of  Build- 
ings shall  keep  a  record  book  in  which  he  shall  enter  at  length  all 
inspections  made  by  him,  and  all  complaints  made  by  him, 
and  to  him,  and  shall  make  a  general  report  to  the  Common 
Council  when  required. 

SEC.  21.  Resisting  Inspector;  Penalty  Any  person  who  shall 
hinder,  obstruct,  resist  or  abuse  said  Inspector  of  Buildings  or 
Superintendent  of  Electrical  Department  in  the  discharge  of  the 
duties  imposed  upon  them  by  this  ordinance,  shall  pay  a  penalty 
of  not  less  than  ten  ($10)  nor  more  than  fifty  ($50)  dollais. 

SEC.  22.  Fire  Marshal;  Penalty.  The  Building  Inspector  shall 
also  act  as  a  Fire  Marshal.  It  shall  be  his  duty  to  inspect  at  least 
once  a  month  the  cellars  and  yards  of  all  stores  and  tenement 
blocks  in  the  fire  district  and  if  any  combustible  material  is  found, 
to  notify  the  owner  or  occupant  to  remove  the  same  at  once. 

Failure  to  comply  with  such  notification  shall  be  deemed  a  mis- 
demeanor and  shall  be  subject  to  a  fine  of  not  less  than  five  (5) 
dollars  for  each  and  every  day  after  said  notification. 


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NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

The  Fire  Marshal  shall  make  an  investigation  of  all  fires  that 
may  occur  in  the  city  and  shall  report  the  cause  of  the  same  to  the 
Fire  Commissioners. 

SEC.  23.  Permits  Good  for  One  Year.  Permits  to  build  or  re- 
pair buildings  shall  be  good  for  one  year  only  after  date  of  said 
permit,  it  being  understood  that  permits  can  be  renewed  without 
further  cost  to  the  applicant  if  found  necessary  and  if  the  condi- 
tions are  the  same  as  at  the  time  the  permit  was  granted. 


CHAPTER  VIJI. 

FIRE. 
Be  it  ordaintd  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  New  Britain: 

SECTION  i.  Fire  Department  Companies  and  Officers.  The  Fire 
Department  of  said  city  shall  consist  of  a  Chief  Engineer  and  one 
Assistant  Engineer,  four  hose  companies  with  a  foreman,  one 
assistant  foreman  and  six  hosemen  each,  one  hook  and  ladder 
company  with  a  foreman,  one  assistant  foreman  and  ten  ladder- 
men,  and  seven  permanent  drivers.  There  shall  be  three  steam 
fire  engines  with  an  engineer  and  stoker  for  each  engine,  said  en- 
gines to  be  located  at  Engine  Houses  Nos.  i,  2  and  3  respectively. 
There  shall  be  appointed  two  substitutes  for  each  hose  company 
and  the  hook  and  ladder  company  who  shall  be  required  to  answer 
all  fire  alarms  and  shall  be  compensated  as  provided  in  Section  8 
of  this  Chapter. 

SEC.  2.  Duties  and  Powers  of  Chief  Engineer.  The  Chief  En- 
gineer under  the  supervision  of  the  Fire  Commissioners  shall  have 
the  superintendence,  care  and  direction  of  fire  engines,  hose  carts, 
hook  and  ladder  trucks,  hose,  and  all  other  apparatus  belonging 
to  said  city  \  he  shall  see  that  the  same,  with  houses  in  which  they 


CHAPTER    VIIL  2? 

FIRES. 

are  stored,  and  the  fire  hydrants  belonging  to  the  city,  are  kept  in 
good  order  and  repair  and  ready  for  immediate  use ;  he  shall  have 
sole  command  at  fires  over  the  Assistant  Engineer  and  all  other 
members  of  the  Fire  Department,  and  all  other  persons  present  at 
fires,  and  shall  direct  all  proper  measures  for  the  extinguishment 
of  fires,  protection  of  property,  preservation  of  order,  and  the 
observance  of  all  laws,  ordinances  and  regulations  respecting  fires, 
and  whenever  at  any  time  it  shall  be  deemed  necessary  by  the 
Chief  Engineer  to  pull  down  or  demolish  any  building,  in  order  to 
prevent  the  spreading  of  fire,  he  shall  order  the  same  to  be  done.  He 
shall  also  keep  an  account  of  all  fires  occurring  in  said  city  and  shall 
report,  annually,  to  the  Fire  Commissioners  at  their  first  meeting 
in  April,  all  fires  that  have  occurred  during  the  previous  year,  and 
the  cause,  or  supposed  cause,  of  such  fires,  and  the  estimate 
damage  in  each  ;  and  such  report  shall  be  accompanied  with  a  full 
inventory  of  all  the  property  belonging  to  said  department,  and 
with  such  recommendations  as  he  shall  deem  important,  and  he 
shall  perform  such  other  duties  connected  with  said  department  as 
the  Fire  Commissioners  may  from  time  to  time  require. 

SEC.  3.  Assistant  Engineer.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Assist- 
ant Engineer  to  assist  the  Chief  Engineer  in  the  discharge  of  his 
duties,  to  receive  and  communicate  his  orders  at  a  fire  and  see  that 
they  are  executed,  and  in  the  absence  of  the  Chief  Engineer,  his 
duties  and  powers  in  case  of  fire  shall  devolve  upon  the  Assistant 
Engineer,  with  the  assistance  of  any  foreman  that  he  may  call 
upon. 

SEC.  4.  Authority  at  Fires  The  Chief  Engineer  and  Assistant 
Engineer  shall  severally  have  all  power  and  authority  necessary  to 
preserve  order  and  enforce  their  commands  at  a  fire,  and  may  use 
such  force  and  command  and  require  the  aid  and  assistance  of 
such  person  or  persons  as  may  be  necessary  for  that  purpose. 

SEC.  5.  Inspection  of  Factories.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Chief  Engineer  and  Assistant  Engineer  to  visit  the  different  manu- 
facturing establishments  located  in  said  city,  and  blocks  within  the 


28  CHAPTER    VIII. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

fire  limits  of  said  city  used  in  whole  or  in  part  as  dwellings,  as 
often  as  twice  a  year  and  ascertain  the  location  of  all  gates,  hy- 
drants, water  pipes,  hose  and  connections  on  said  premises,  and 
make  record  thereof  if  deemed  necessary  ;  to  acquaint  themselves 
with  all  means  in  use  by  said  manufacturing  establishments  or 
blocks  for  the  prevention  or  extinguishment  of  fires,  and  to  make 
such  suggestions  to  the  proprietors  as  they  may  deem  necessary, 
to  more  effectually  provide  means  of  access  to,  or  escape  from  any 
building  in  case  of  fire,  so  as  to  prevent  loss  of  life  and  more 
effectually  protect  the  property  therein. 

SEC.  6.  Duties  of  Foremen-  Foremen  of  companies  shall  see 
that  the  apparatus  committed  to  their  care,  the  buildings  in  which 
the  same  are  housed,  and  all  articles  in  or  belonging  to  the  same 
are  kept  neat  and  clean ;  shall  preserve  order  and  discipline  at  all 
times  in  their  respective  companies,  and  enforce  strict  compliance 
with  the  regulations  of  the  department  as  made  by  the  Board  of 
Fire  Commissioners. 

SEC.  7.  Duties  of  Clerk;  Penalty.  The  clerk  of  each  company 
shall  keep  in  a  book,  to  be  provided  by  the  Fire  Commissioners,  a 
true  and  exact  roll  of  the  officers  and  members  of  such  company, 
specifying  the  name,  age,  occupation,  residence,  and  date  of  the 
enlistment  and  discharge  of  each  member  ;  shall  keep  a  faithful 
record  of  the  delinquencies  and  fines  of  members,  and  furnish 
copies  of  the  same  to  the  Fire  Commissioners  on  the  first  day  of 
each  month  ;  and  all  company  books  and  papers  in  possession  of 
any  clerk,  shall  be  deemed  the  property  of  the  city,  and  shall  be 
by  him  surrendered  to  the  Chief  Engineer,  when  so  ordered  by  the 
Fire  Commissioners  ;  and  any  clerk  refusing  to  deliver  said  books 
and  papers,  when  so  ordered,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty  of 
twenty  dollars. 

SEC.  8.  Compensation  of  Firemen.  There  shall  be  paid  to  the 
several  members  of  the  fire  department  who  shall  faithfully  perform 
their  respective  duties,  the  following  compensation,  to  wit :  To  the 
chief  engineer  at  the  rate  of  four  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  per  an- 


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FIRES. 

num  ;  to  the  'assistant  engineer  at  the  rate  of  three  hundred  and 
fifty  dollars  per  annum  ;  to  the  engineer  of  each  steam  fire  engine 
at  the  rate  of  three  hundred  dollars  per  annum  ;  to  the  stoker  of 
the  same  at  the  rate  two  of  hundred  and  twenty  dollars  per  annum; 
to  the  foreman  of  each  company  at  the  rate  of  two  hundred  and 
fifty  dollars  per  annum  ;  to  each  assistant  foreman  at  the  rate  of 
two  hundred  and  twenty-five  dollars  per  annum  ;  to  every  member 
of  a  company  at  the  rate  of  two  hundred  dollars  per  annum  ;  to 
every  permanent  driver  at  the  rate  of  eight  hundred  dollars  per 
annum  ;  to  each  substitute  for  each  hose  and  hook  and  ladder 
company  the  sum  of  fifty  cents  for  each  and  every  alarm  of  fire  re- 
sponded to  and  the  regular  pay  of  a  member  of  a  company  while 
acting  as  a  substitute  for  a  regular  man  temporarily  ;  fines  shall  be 
imposed  on  the  substitute  only  while  "acting  temporarily  for  a  regular 
man.  But  no  person  shall  be  entitled  to  any  portion  of  the  compensa- 
tion hereby  provided  until  the  time  appointed  for  the  payment  of 
the  same  in  the  ninth  section  of  this  ordinance,  and  if  at  the 
time  such  compensation  becomes  payable  any  member  of  said  de- 
partment shall  have  incurred  any  penalty,  fine  or  forfeiture  for  the 
violation  of  any  provision  of  this  ordinance  and  shall  not  have 
paid  the  same,  he  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  only  so  much  of  said 
compensation  as  shall  remain  after  deducting  the  amount  of  such 
penalty,  fine  or  forfeiture. 

SEC.  g.  Payment  of  Fire  Department.  Payment  of  the  com- 
pensation of  the  members  of  the  fire  department  shall  be  made  in 
quarterly  installments,  payable  on  the  last  day  of  March,  June, 
September  and  December,  and  to  facilitate  the  same,  it  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  clerk  of  the  Board  of  Fire  Commissioners  on  or 
before  the  third  day  of  January,  April,  July  and  October  in  each 
year  to  make  out  a  pay  roll  on  which  shall  be  entered  the  names 
of  the  chief  engineer,  assistant  engineer,  engineers  and  stokers  of 
the  steam  fire  engines,  and  all  officers,  members  and  substitutes  of 
each  company  in  said  department,  the  number  of  months'  service 
and  the  amount  due  each,  after  deducting  all  penalties,  fines  or 
forfeitures,  if  any,  unpaid  on  said  dates. 


30  CHAPTER   VIII. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

SEC.  10.  Pay  Roll.  The  clerk  of  fire  commissioners  shall  prepare 
quarterly  a  correct  pay  roll  of  the  Fire  Department,  which  shall  be 
approved  by  a  majority  of  said  board  by  writing  their  names  across 
the  same,  and  they  shall  then  deliver  it  to  the  City  Auditor,  who 
shall  draw  his  order  on  the  treasurer  in  favor  of  each  individual 
account  on  the  pay  roll,  and  deliver  the  same  to  the  City  Clerk,  who 
shall  pay  the  members  of  the  department  taking  a  receipt  for  the 
same  from  each  member. 

SEC.  ii.  Taking  Fire  Apparatus  Beyond  City  Limits.  No  ap- 
paratus owned  or  controlled  by  the  city  shall  be  taken  beyond  the 
city  limits,  except  for  assistance  in  case  of  fire,  and  then  only  by 
permission  of  the  Chief  Engineer,  or  in  his  absence,  the  Assistant 
Engineer.  Any  officer  or  member  of  a  company,  who  shall  fail  to 
be  present  at  any  fire  without  an  excuse,  satisfactory  to  the  Fire 
Commissioners,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  fine  of  two  dollars  for  the 
first  offence,  three  dollars  for  the  second  offence  and  four  dollars 
for  the  third  offence,  in  any  one  quarter,  and  the  Chief  Engineer 
may  immediately  suspend  the  member  without  pay  until  the  Fire 
Commissioners  take  action  in  the  matter.  Upon  the  third  offence 
any  member  shall  be  dismissed  from  the  department,  should  he 
fail  to  show  good  cause  for  his  neglect  of  duty.  Any  officer  or 
member  of  a  company  wilfully  neglecting  or  refusing  to  perform 
any  of  the  duties  prescribed  in  this  ordinance  shall  be  liable  to 
dismissal  from  the  Fire  Department. 

SEC.  12.  false  Alarm  ;  Penalty.  Any  person  who  shall  know- 
ingly give  a  false  alarm  of  fire  in  said  city,  or  shall  knowingly  pro- 
claim that  any  fire  is  extinguished  when  it  is  not,  shall  be  guilty  of 
misdemeanor  and  be  fined  not  less  than  seven  nor  more  than  thirty 
dollars. 

SEC.  13.  Honorary  Membership.  Every  person  who  shall  have 
served  according  to  the  law,  in  the  Fire  Department,  for  six  suc- 
cessive years,  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  a  certificate,  signed  by 
the  Mayor  and  City  Clerk,  and  any  member  receiving  such  certifi- 


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FIRES. 

cate  shall  be  considered  an  honorary  member  of  the  department, 
and  entitled  to  wear  such  badge  as  may  be  designated  by  the  Com- 
mon Council. 

SEC.  14.  Fire  Implements ;  Penalty.  Any  person  or  persons 
who  shall  take  or  remove  any  of  the  ladders  or  other  implements 
for  extinguishing  fires,  belonging  to  said  city,  from  the  places  where 
deposited,  except  in  case  of  fire,  or  shall  use  any  such  ladder  or 
other  implement,  or  cause  the  same  to  be  used  when  so  taken, 
shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than 
twenty  dollars  for  each  offence. 

SEC.  15.  Dismissal.  The  Chief  Engineer,  or  in  his  absence  the 
Assistant  Engineer,  with  the  approbation  of  the  Fire  Commis- 
sioners may,  and  for  the  second  offence  shall,  dismiss  from  said 
Department  any  officer  or  member  of  any  company  for  neglect  of 
duty,  drunkenness,  disorderly  conduct,  disobedience  of  orders,  or 
wilful  violation  of  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance,  and 
such  dismissed  member  shall  not  be  entitled  to  compensation  for 
his  services. 

SEC.  1 6.  Annual  Inspection.  There  shall  be,  annually,  in  the 
month  of  September  an  inspection  of  the  Fire  Department,  at  such 
time  and  place  as  the  Fire  Commissioners  may  direct. 

SEC.  17.  Lights,  Matches,  etc.;  Penalty.  No  person  shall 
carry  into  or  use  in  any  barn,  stable  or  other  building  in  said  city, 
in  which  hay,  straw,  stalks,  husks,  or  other  combustible  material  is 
deposited  or  kept,  any  lighted  candle,  lamp,  or  fire,  unless  the 
same  shall  be  well  secured  in  a  lantern,  nor  carry  into  or  use  in 
such  building  any  lighted  pipe  or  cigar,  nor  throw  down  or  drop 
therein  any  matches  unused  or  with  any  fire  on  them,  nor  keep 
therein  any  matches  except  in  a  fire-proof  box  or  match  safe,  nor 
throw  or  drop  therein  any  fire  crackers,  or  fire  works  of  any  kind. 
And  every  person  who  shall  violate  any  of  the  foregoing  provisions 
of  this  section  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  five 
nor  more  than  fifty  dollars  for  each  offence. 


32  CHAPTER  VIII. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

SEC.  1 8.  Fire  Works  and  Bonfires;  Penalty.  Every  person  who  shall 
use  or  explode  any  fire  crackers  or  fireworks  of  any  kind,  or  make, 
assist  in  making  or  kindling,  any  bonfire  in  any  street  or  public 
park  of  said  city,  without  the  written  consent  of  the  Chief  of  Police 
countersigned  by  the  Mayor,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty  of  five 
dollars  for  each  offence. 

SEC.  19.  Discharging  Fire  Arms  ;  Record  of  Permits  ;  Penalty. 
No  person  shall  discharge  any  gun,  pistol,  cannon,  or  other  fire- 
arms of  any  sort  or  description  within  the  limits  of  said  city  unless 
by  written  permission  of  the  Chief  of  Police,  or  by  order  of  some 
military  officer  on  occasion  of  military  exercises  and  parade,  and 
such  permit  of  said  Chief  of  Police  shall  state  the  date,  length  of 
time  of  such  permit,  and  the  name  of  the  person,  club,  or  organi- 
zation to  whom  such  permission  is  granted,  and  a  record  thereof 
shall  be  kept  by  the  Chief  of  Police  in  a  book  provided  for  the 
purpose,  and  whoever  shall  discharge  any  pistol,  gun,  or  cannon, 
or  other  firearms,  without  permission  as  aforesaid,  shall  be  guilty 
of  a  misdemeanor  and  be  fined  five  dollars  for  each  offence. 

SEC.  20.  Discharging  Fire  Works ;  Penalty.  Any  person  who 
shall  discharge  any  fireworks  except  upon  the  fourth  day  of  July, 
so  as  to  annoy  and  cause  serious  discomfort  to  any  inhabitant  of 
said  city,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  for  each  offence  a  penalty  of  five 
dollars. 

SEC.  21.  Liability  of  Parents  and  Guardians.  If  any  minor  or 
apprentice  shall  be  guilty  of  a  breach  of  any  of  the  provisions  of 
this  ordinance,  punishable  by  forfeiture,  the  parent,  guardian,  or 
master  of  such  minor  or  apprentice,  shall  be  liable  to  pay  the  for- 
feiture incurred  thereby,  and  may  be  sued  therefore  in  a  proper 
action  brought  in  the  name  of  said  city  upon  this  ordinance. 

SEC.  22.  Hitching  to  Fire  Alarm  Poles,  etc.  ;  Posting  Bills ; 
Penalty.  No  person  shall  post  or  in  any  manner  affix  any  placards, 
bills,  or  notice,  either  written  or  printed,  upon  any  of  the  Fire 
Alarm  Telegraph  poles  or  boxes  in  said  city  nor  hitch  nor  fasten 
any  horse  or  other  animal  to  any  of  the  Fire  Alarm  Telegraph  poles 


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FIRES. 

in  said  city,  nor  wilfully  injure,  deface,  nor  in  any  manner  inter- 
fere with  any  of  the  Fire  Alarm  Telegraph  poles,  boxes,  wires,  or 
any  of  the  apparatus  connected  with  the  Fire  Alarm  Telegragh  ; 
any  person  offending  against  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  section 
of  this  ordinance,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  for  each  offence  a  penalty 
of  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than  twenty-five  dollars. 

SEC.  23.  Delivery  of  Goods.  No  goods  shall  be  delivered  to 
the  Fire  Department  except  upon  a  written  order  signed  by  one  or 
more  members  of  the  board  of  Fire  Commissioners. 

SEC.  24.  Bills,  How  Presented.  Bills  must  accompany  all 
goods  when  delivered,  said  bills  to  be  approved  by  the  person 
who  receives  the  same  by  writing  his  approval  and  certificate 
across  the  face  of  the  bill  with  his  signature  and  the  date  of  same. 
When  goods  are  purchased  by  weight  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
receiver  to  weigh  the  same  on  scales.  All  bills  must  be  trans- 
mitted to  the  chairman  or  clerk  of  the  board  within  twenty-four 
hours  after  the  goods  are  received. 

SEC.  25.  Bills,  How  Approved.  All  bills  before  being  paid 
must  be  approved  by  a  majority  of  the  commissioners,  said  ap- 
proval being  made  by  said  commissioners  writing  their  names 
across  the  face  of  the  bill.  After  such  approval  the  bill  must  be 
placed  upon  the  record  book  of  the  board,  giving  the  names  of  the 
commissioners  who  approved  the  bill,  the  party  ordering  the  goods, 
and  to  whom  delivered. 

SEC.  26.  Book  Accounts.  The  board  shall  keep  a  set  of  books, 
entering  thereon  the  debits  and  credits  of  each  individual  or  cor- 
poration with  whom  it  has  dealings,  showing  each  and  every 
transaction. 

SEC.  27.  Official  Acts,  How  Approved.  All  official  acts  of  the 
board,  or  any  member  of  the  same,  must  be  approved  by  a  ma- 
jority of  the  commissioners  and  spread  upon  their  records.  Any 
member  or  members  of  the  board  who  may  transact  business  shall 
report  said  transactions  in  full  at  the  next  regular  meeting  of  the 
board,  and  such  report  or  reports  must  be  spread  upon  the  records 
of  said  meeting. 


34  CHAPTER  VIII. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

SEC.  28.  Purchase  of  Supplies.  All  supplies  must  be  purchased 
to  the  best  advantage  of  the  city,  even  in  car  load  lots  when  it  is 
deemed  best ;  all  orders  for  car  load  lots  to  give  price  and  quality 
and  to  bear  the  signature  of  a  majority  of  the  board. 

SEC.  29.  Bids  to  be  Advertised  For.  Bids  for  furnishing  the 
supplies,  doing  the  repair  work,  shoeing  the  horses,  laundry  work 
and  care  of  rooms  in  various  houses  must  be  advertised  whenever 
it  may  be  deemed  best  to  do  so  by  a  majority  of  the  board.  In 
awarding  the  contract  for  furnishing  the  supplies  and  doing  the 
work  preference  shall  be  given  when  practicable  to  the  lowest  re- 
sponsible bidder. 

SEC.  30.  Salary  of  Chairman.  The  salary  of  the  chairman  of 
the  board  shall  be  $200  per  year  on  and  after  April  n,  1900. 

SEC.  31.  To  Examine  Accounts.  The  finance  committee  of  the 
Common  Council,  in  conjunction  with  the  board  of  Fire  Commis- 
sioners, shall  in  February  of  each  year,  examine  the  accounts  of 
the  board,  to  formulate  an  estimate  of  the  expenses  for  the  suc- 
ceeding year,  and  shall  report  said  estimate  to  the  Common 
Council. 

SEC.  32.  Inventory  of  Fire  Department.  The  board  of  Fire 
Commissioners,  in  conjunction  with  the  Chief  Engineer  of  the  de- 
partment, shall  make  a  careful  inventory  each  March  of  the  property 
belonging  to  the  city,  in  their  charge,  which  inventory  shall  be  a 
part  of  the  annual  report.  Said  inventory  shall  be  made  by  com- 
panies, and  spread  upon  the  records  of  the  board.  Additions 
made  to  the  department  must  also  be  noted  on  the  said  inventory 
account 

SEC.  33.  Purchases  to  be  Reported.  The  board  of  Fire  Com- 
missioners shall  report  all  purchases  of  apparatus  or  horses  or 
transactions  involving  an  outlay  of  $250.00  or  more  to  the  Mayor 
and  Common  Council,  said  purchase  to  be  reported  at  the  next 
regular  meeting  of  the  Common  Council. 


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SUPERINTENDENT    OF    ELECTRICAL  DEPARTMENT. 

SEC.  34.  Bond  of  Chairman.  The  chairman  of  the  board  of 
Fire  Commissioners  shall  furnish  bonds  to  the  city  in  the  sum  of 
$2,500.00,  conditioned  for  the  faithful  performance  of  his  duty  ; 
said  bond  to  be  renewed  each  year  upon  his  election  as  such 
chairman. 


CHAPTER  IX. 

SUPERINTENDENT  OF  ELECTRICAL  DEPARTMENT. 

SECTION  i.  Superintendent  of  Electrical  Departments.  The 
Superintendent  of  the  Electrical  Department  shall  immediately 
upon  the  passage  of  this  ordinance,  be  elected  by  the  members  of 
the  board  of  Fire  Commissioners  and  the  board  of  Police  Com- 
missioners, to  hold  office  during  good  behavior  and  efficiency,  the 
said  commissioners  to  hold  a  joint  session  for  the  purpose  of  elect- 
ing said  Superintendent  of  the  Electrical  Department. 

Charges  may  be  made  in  writing  against  said  superintendent,  to 
the  members  of  the  above  boards,  and  if  upon  investigation,  there 
is,  in  their  opinion,  sufficient  cause  for  his  removal,  they  are  hereby 
empowered  to  make  such  removal  and  also  to  elect  his  successor. 

SEC.  2.  Duties  of  Superintendent.  It  shall  be  his  duty  to  in- 
spect as  often  as  may  be  necessary,  and  keep  ic  repair  all  electrical 
apparatus  and  wires,  or  other  conduits,  for  carrying  electric  cur- 
rents within  the  city  of  New  Britain  and  to  report  forthwith  to  the 
party  owning  or  operating  such  wires  or  conduits,  any  and  all 
structural  or  other  defects  which  he  may  discover  in  the  placing, 
locating  or  operating  of  the  same,  and  which  in  his  judgment  are, 
or  may  become  dangerous  to  persons  or  property  and  to  suggest 
such  remedy  for  such  defects  as  he  may  think  best  suited  to  meet 
the  circumstances  of  each  case. 


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NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

It  shall  be  his  duty  to  inspect  all  buildings  in  the  city,  hereafter 
wired  or  rewired  for  electric  lighting,  or  use  of  electric  power,  and 
keep  a  record  of  the  same. 

SEC.  3.  Removal  of  Wires.  He  shall  also  cause  to  be  removed 
all  wires  not  in  service  and  such  as  are  commonly  known  as  dead 
wires,  and  shall  report  to  the  Common  Council  for  action  all  cases 
in  which  the  party  owning  or  controlling  the  same  shall  neglect  or 
refuse  to  remove  them  after  due  notice  from  the  inspector,  in  writ- 
ing, so  to  do. 

He  shall  require  the  parties  owning  or  operating  any  such 
dangerous  or  defective  wires  immediately  to  remedy  the  difficulty 
in  accordance  with  his  suggestions,  or  to  his  satisfaction. 

Should  any  party  refuse  or  neglect  to  comply  within  a  reasona- 
ble time  with  such  requirements  of  the  Superintendent  of  the  Elec- 
trical Department,  he  shall  report  the  fact  to  the  Common  Council 
at  its  meeting  and  request  action  thereon,  and  shall  submit  with 
such  report  a  draft  of  such  order  as  in  his  judgment  shall  be  re- 
quired in  the  premises  and  shall  recommend  the  passage  of  the 
same  ;  and  the  Common  Council  at  the  same  or  next  subsequent 
meeting  shall  act  upon  such  order  pursuant  to  the  provisions  of  the 
general  statutes  of  the  State  relating  to  the  direction  and  control 
of  electrical  construction  by  municipal  bodies. 

SEC.  4.  May  Be  Officer  of  Fire  Department.  Such  Superin- 
tendent of  the  Electrical  Department  may  continue  to  be  an  officer 
of  the  Fire  Department,  and  subject  to  the  rules,  laws  and  regula- 
tions made  for  him  by  the  board  of  Fire  Commissioners. 

SEC.  5.  Salary.  The  superintendent  herein  provided  for  shall 
receive  an  annual  compensation  of  nine  hundred  and  fifty  dollars. 

SEC.  6.  No  electrical  contractor,  or  other  person  or  persons 
shall  wire  or  rewire  any  building  in  this  city  (factories  excepted) 
for  electric  lights  or  power,  without  first  obtaining  a  permit  from 
the  Superintendent  of  Electrical  Department  of  the  city,  and  in  no 
case  shall  work  be  started  until  such  permit  has  been  made  in 
writing  to  the  Superintendent  of  Electrical  Department,  and  in  no 


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HEALTH. 

case  shall  wires  be  concealed  before  being  inspected  by  said  super- 
intendent, who  shall  be  notified  in  writing  that  such  work  is  ready 
for  his  inspection. 

Any  person  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall 
forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  ($5.00)  dollars  and 
not  more  than  twenty-five  ($25.00)  dollars. 

SEC.  7.  In  case  the  Superintendent  of  Electrical  Department 
becomes  aware  of  any  line  construction,  etc.,  being  done  without 
proper  permit  from  the  Common  Council,  he  shall  immediately 
order  the  parties  who  are  doing  the  work  to  stop  any  further  work 
being  done  until  such  permit  has  been  obtained  and  such  work 
shall  therefore  be  suspended  until  a  permit  therefor  shall  be  ob- 
tained. 

SEC.  8.  No  wire  or  wires  shall  cross  a  public  highway  less  than 
twenty-one  (21)  feet  in  height,  no  guy  wires  shall  be  placed  on 
public  streets  (parallel  with  streets)  less  than  ten  (10)  feet  above, 
the  ground  at  the  lowest  point. 


CHAPTER  X. 

HEALTH. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  New 
Britain  : 

SECTION  i.  Appointment  of  Health  Committee.  The  Common 
Council  shall  annually  appoint  a  committee,  who  may  or  may  not 
be  members  thereof,  to  be  denominated  the  Health  Committee. 
The  chairman  of  the  Heaith  Committee  shall  be  the  executive  offi- 
cer of  the  committee.  All  complaints  relative  to  the  Health  De- 
partment shall  be  made  to  the  City  Health  Officer. 

SEC.  2.  Appointment  of  Sanitary  Inspector.  The  Common 
Council  shall  appoint  a  Sanitary  Inspector,  who  shall  act  as  an 
assistant  to  the  Health  Officer  and  Health  Committee,  and  render 
such  services  as  are  desired  by  said  Health  Officer  and  Health 


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NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

Committee,  so  far  as  in  his  power  lies,  the  pay  for  which  shall  be 
fixed  by  the  Common  Council,  said  appointment  to  be  made  during 
the  month  of  April  each  year,  and  the  person  so  appointed  to  hold 
office  from  and  after  the  first  day  in  May  following  his  appoint- 
ment and  until  his  successor  is  duly  appointed  and  qualified.  The 
person  so  appointed  Sanitary  Inspector  shall  also  be  Building  In- 
spector, and  perform  the  services  incident  to  said  office,  the  pay 
fixed  by  the  Common  Council  to  include  his  services  in  both 
capacities. 

SEC.  3.  Qualifications  of  Sanitary  Inspector.  No  person  shall 
be  appointed  as  Sanitary  Inspector  unless  he  shall  have  had  actual 
experience  either  as  an  architect,  builder  or  plumber. 

SEC.  4.  Duties  of  Health  Committee.  The  Health  Committee 
shall  hold  meetings  as  often  as  is  necessary.  A  meeting  may  be 
called  at  any  time  by  sending  proper  notices  to  the  members  of  the 
committee.  Meetings  of  the  Health  Committee  may  be  called  by 
the  clerk  of  the  -committee  at  any  time,  either  by  request  of  the 
chairman,  or  of  any  three  members  of  the  committee.  Three 
members  shall  constitute  a  quorum,  and  regular  business  of  the 
committee  shall  only  be  transacted  when  a  quorum  is  present. 
Minutes  of  said  meetings  shall  be  kept  by  the  City  Clerk,  who  shall 
be  clerk  of  said  committee.  The  records  of  this  committee  shall 
be  a  part  of  the  public  records  and  shall  be  kept  in  the  City  Clerk's 
office,  and  shall  be  at  all  times  subject  to  public  inspection.  It 
shall  be  the  duty  -of  said  Health  Committee  to  keep  a  general  over- 
sight over  matters  relating  to  the  health  of  the  city  for  the  purpose 
of  causing  all  nuisances,  injurious  to  the  public  health  and  safety, 
to  be  removed  or  suppressed,  and  said  committee,  its  chairman  or 
any  two  of  them,  are  hereby  empowered  to  inspect,  as  often  as 
they  deem  necessary,  all  markets,  shops,  and  other  places  in  said 
city,  and  whenever  they  shall  find  filth  or  putrefaction  in  any  market, 
shop,  or  other  place  by  them  visited,  which  in  their  opinion  may 
prove  detrimental  to  the  health  of  the  inhabitants  of  said  city  or 
any  portion  thereof,  said  committee,  or  any  two  of  them,  shall 


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HEALTH. 

make  a  report  thereof  to  the  City  Health  Officer,  to  be  dealt  with 
according  to  law. 

SEC.  5.  Abatement  of  Nuisance.  If  any  person  or  persons  upon 
whom  an  order  shall  be  made  for  removing  a  nuisance,  or  for 
cleaning  and  purifying  the  land,  building  or  place  where  such 
nuisance  shall  be  found,  shall  neglect  to  obey  such  order  in  the 
manner  and  time  appointed  by  the  City  Health  Officer,  said  City 
Health  Officer  may  cause  such  nuisance  to  be  removed  or  abated, 
and  such  land,  building  or  place  to  be  cleansed  and  purified,  and 
the  Common  Council  shall  adjust,  liquidate  and  pay  the  expense 
thereof,  and  the  same  shall  be  collected  of  such  person  or  persons 
in  default  as  aforesaid  by  a  civil  action  in  the  name  of  the  city. 

SEC.  6-  Inspection  of  Plumbing  and  Drainage.  The  plumbing 
and  drainage  of  all  dwelling  houses  and  tenements  in  the  City  of 
New  Britain,  shall  be  subject  to  the  inspection  of  the  Health  Com- 
mittee and  the  Sanitary  Inspector,  and  for  this  purpose  they  are 
hereby  authorized  to  enter  into  or  upon  any  dwelling  house  or 
tenement  either  in  course  of  construction  or  otherwise  in  said  city. 
Whenever,  upon  such  inspection,  it  shall  appear  to  the  committee, 
its  chairman,  or  any  two  of  them,  that  the  plumbing  or  drainage 
is  defective  or  that  any  soil  pipe  or  ventilating  pipe  from  any 
dwelling  or  other  building  is  placed  and  maintained  with  its  open- 
ing below  the  roof  or  roofs  of  surrounding  buildings,  so  as  to  be  a 
detriment  to  the  health  of  the  neighborhood,  they  shall  issue  such 
orders  for  the  immediate  remedy  of  the  defects  discovered  as  they 
may  deem  necessary. 

SEC.  7.  Penalty.  Every  owner  of  a  dwelling  house  or  tene- 
ment who  shall  fail  to  execute  any  order  issued  in  accordance  with 
the  foregoing  section  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty  of  ten  dollars 
for  each  and  every  week  of  non-compliance  with  said  order. 

SEC.  8.  Rules  as  to  Plumbing  and  Drainage.  The  Board  of 
Health  and  Sanitary  Inspector  shall  draw  up  such  general  rules 
and  specifications  in  regard  to  plumbing  and  drainage  as  are 
necessary  for  the  protection  of  health  and  shall  furnish  a  copy  of 
same  to  every  plumber  and  builder  in  the  city. 


40  CHAPTER    X. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

SEC.  9.  Building  Plans  to  Be  Approved.  No  building  shall 
hereafter  be  erected,  or  in  any  material  manner  altered  or  repaired, 
unless  the  owner  or  the  person  having  charge  of  such  erection, 
alteration  or  repairs  shall  have  first  submitted  the  plans,  specifica- 
tions and  details  therefor,  in  so  far  as  the  same  shall  relate  to 
plumbing  and  drainage,  to  the  Board  of  Health,  and  received  the 
approval  of  said  Board  and  of  the  Sanitary  Inspector. 

SEC.  10.  Approval  Necessary.  No  plumber  or  contractor  for 
plumbing  work  upon  any  building  shall  construct  any  work  requir- 
ing approval  as  aforesaid,  until  such  approval  has  first  been  ob- 
tained, and  in  the  construction  of  all  such  work  strict  conformity 
shall  be  had  to  the  rules  and  regulations  as  regards  plumbing  and 
drainage  of  the  Board  of  Health. 

SEC.  n.  Certificates  of  Approval.  When  the  plumbing  work 
upon  any  building  requiring  inspection  and  approval  as  aforesaid 
shall  be  completed  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  Board  of  Health  and 
of  the  Sanitary  Inspector,  it  shall  issue  a  written  certificate  of 
approval,  a  copy  of  which  and  all  other  proceedings  in  the  matter 
shall  be  kept  on  file,  or  recorded,  and  until  such  certificate  has 
been  issued,  it  shall  not  be  lawful  for  the  owner,  manager,  or  agent  of 
said  property  to  allow  the  same  to  be  occupied  for  human  habitation. 

SEC.  12.  Penalty.  Any  person  or  persons  violating  any  of  the 
provisions  of  sections  9,  10  and  n  of  this  ordinance  shall  pay  a 
penalty  of  not  less  than  one  and  not  more  than  fifty  dollars  for 
each  offence. 

SEC.  13.  Malignant  Conta gi»ys  Diseases;  Quarantine  of .  Every 
lodging-house  keeper,  hotel  keeper  or  house  holder  in  said  city  in 
whose  dwelling  shall  occur  a  case  of  diphtheria,  scarlet  fever,  small 
pox  or  any  other  malignant  contagious  disease  shall  notify  the 
City  Health  Officer  of  said  city  of  the  same  within  twenty-four 
hours  after  its  occurrence.  The  City  Health  Officer'  shall,  if  he 
deems  it  necessary  for  the  public  health,  quarantine  the  case,  or 
in  case  of  small  pox,  order  its  removal  to  such  place  as  may  be 
designated  for  the  reception  of  persons  suffering  from  such  dis- 


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HEALTH. 

ease,  and  he  shall  direct  the  disinfection  of  every  house  and  dis- 
posal of  all  infected  articles. 

SEC.  14.  Persons  Exposed  to  Such  Diseases^.  No  person  living 
in  any  family  wherein  any  person  is  afflicted  with  any  of  said  ma- 
lignant contagious  diseases  shall  attend  school  or  any  public  assem- 
blage of  persons  without  the  permission  of  the  City  Health  Officer 
or  the  physician  who  shall  be  attending  said  sick  person,  and  no 
person  who  shall  have  been  afflicted  with  any  of  said  malignant 
contagious  diseases  shall  attend  school  or  any  other  public  assem- 
blage of  persons  until  the  City  Health  Officer  or  the  physician  who 
shall  attend  such  sick  person  shall  certify  in  writing  that  such  sick 
person  is  convalescent  and  all  danger  from  contagion  is  passed. 

SEC.  15.  Physicians  to  Report.  Every  physician  who  shall  at- 
tend any  person  who  shall  be  afflicted  with  any  of  the  above  men- 
tioned malignant  contagious  diseases  shall  forthwith  report  the 
same  to  the  City  Health  Officer  giving  the  street  and  number  of 
the  house  where  such  sick  person  resides,  and  every  physician  who 
shall  attend  any  person  suffering  from  any  of  said  malignant  con- 
tagious diseases  where  any  child  of  the  family  of  such  sick  person 
shall  be  attending  any  public  school,  shall  also  immediately  notify 
the  teacher  of  the  school  which  such  child  attends  of  the  existence 
of  said  disease  in  said  family,  and  if  no  physician  shall  be  in 
attendance  on  said  sick  person,  the  parents  or  guardian  of  said 
child  shall  immediately  give  such  notice,  and  the  teacher  of  such 
school  shall  exclude  said  child  from  the  same  until  the  attending 
physician  or  City  Health  Officer  shall  certify  that  all  danger  from 
contagion  is  passed. 

SEC.  1 6.  Teachers  to  Report.  Whenever  any  teacher  or  teach- 
ers shall  become  cognizant  of  the  existence  of  any  such  malignant 
contagious  disease  in  any  house  from  which  children  attend 
school,  it  shall  be  their  duty  forthwith  to  report  the  same  to  one 
of  the  acting  school  visitors  or  the  superintendent  of  schools. 

SEC.  17.  Public  Funerals  Prohibited.  No  public  funeral  shall 
be  held  of  any  person  who  shall  die  from  any  of  the  above  men- 


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NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

tioned  malignant  contagious  diseases  unless  by  the  consent  in 
writing  of  the  City  Health  Cffficer. 

SEC.  1 8.  Quarantined  Houses.  No  person  other  than  attend- 
ing physicians  or  attendants  shall  enter  a  dwelling  house  in  which 
any  person  is  afflicted  with  any  of  said  malignant  contagious  dis- 
eases, nor  shall  any  person  living  in  the  said  dwelling  house,  where 
said  disease  shall  exist,  leave  the  same,  after  the  said  dwelling 
house  shall. have  been  quarantined,  without  the  consent  in  writing 
of  the  City  Health  Officer. 

SEC.  19.  Penalty  for  Removal.  No  person  shall  without  a  per- 
mit from  the  City  Health  Officer  carry  or  remove  from  one  build- 
ing to  another  any  person  sick  with  a  contagious  disease  or  any 
clothing  or  other  articles  which  may  have  been  exposed  to  infection. 

SEC.  20.  Persons  Not  to  Enter  City.  No  one  sick  with  a  con- 
tagious disease  shall  come  nor  shall  anyone  bring  or  cause  to  be 
brought  into  the  city  of  New  Britain  any  person  known  or  reason- 
ably suspected  to  be  sick  with  a  contagious  disease  or  any  articles 
which  shall  have  been  exposed  to  infection  from  any  such  disease 
without  a  permit  from  the  City  Health  Officer. 

SEC.  21.  Carriages  to  be  Disinfected.  No  hack,  cab,  stage, 
carriage,  electric  car  or  other  public  or  private  conveyance  in 
which  a  person  has  been  carried  known  to  the  owner,  driver,  con- 
ductor or  other  person  having  charge  thereof,  to  be  sick  of  a  con- 
tagious disease  shall  be  thereafter  used  for  the  carrying  of  any 
passenger  until  such  vehicle  or  car  shall  have  been  disinfected  to 
the  satisfaction  of  the  City  Health  Officer. 

SEC.  22.  Warning  Notice.  No  person  shall  tear  down  or  de- 
face any  notice  or  flag  which  shall  be  put  upon  or  near  any  dwell- 
ing house  to  give  warning  of  the  existence  of  any  malignant  or 
contagious  disease  in  said  dwelling  house. 

SEC.  23.  Penalty.  Every  person  who  shall  violate  any  of  the 
provisions  of  this  ordinance 'in  regard  to  malignant  contagious  dis- 
eases shall  pay  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  ten  (#10)  and  not  more 
than  fifty  (#50)  dollars. 


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HEALTH. 

SEC.  24.  Size  of  Sleeping  Rooms  The  occupying  of  any  room 
in  said  city  for  the  purpose  of  sleeping  at  night  in  which  there 
shall  be  more  than  one  adult  person  for  each  350  cubic  feet  of 
space  is  hereby  prohibited,  and  any  person  who  shall  occupy  any 
room  contrary  to  the  foregoing  provision,  or  shall  let  or  permit 
the  same  to  be  so  occupied,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and 
shall  pay  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  ($5.00)  and  not  more 
than  twenty-five  ($25.00)  dollars  for  each  offense. 

SEC.  25.  Expenditures;  Delegation  of  Duties.  No  member  of 
the  Health  Committee  shall  expend  any  moneys  for  or  contract 
any  bills  without  the  consent  of  a  majority  of  said  Board  passed 
upon  at  any  regular  meeting,  except  in  a  case  of  emergency  where 
public  safety  is  in  jeopardy.  Any  bill  contracted  by  any  member 
of  this  committee  contrary  to  this  section  shall  not  be  legal  or 
binding  upon  the  city.  No  member  of  said  committee  shall  be 
authorized  to  assume  full  control  of  the  business  of  the  Health 
Committee,  nor  shall  any  member  of  said  committee  take  any 
action  in  reference  to  the  regular  business  of  the  committee  (except 
in  emergency  cases)  except  by  vote  of  a  majority  of  said  com- 
mittee at  a  regularly  warned  meeting. 

SEC.  26.  Violations  of  Ordinance.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Health  Committee  to  report  every  violation  of  this  ordinance  to 
the  Prosecuting  Attorney,  who  shall  prosecute  the  same  before  the 
Police  Court. 

SEC.  27.  Plumbers  License.  On  and  after  August  i,  1902, 
every  master  plumber  carrying  on  the  business  of  plumbing  in  the 
city  of  New  Britain  shall  under  such  rules  and  regulations  as  the 
Board  of  Health  of  said  city  shall  prescribe,  petition  the  said 
Board  of  Health  for  and  receive  a  license,  the  fee  for  such  license 
shall  be  $1.00,  and  shall  be  renewed  annually  on  the  payment  of  a 
fee  of  50  cents,  and  after  said  date  it  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any 
person  to  carry  on  the  business  of  plumbing  in  the  said  city  until 
he  shall  have  first  received  a  license  for  the  same. 


44  CHAPTER  X. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

SEC.  28.  Violations  of  Ordinance.  Any  violations  of  the  pro- 
visions of  the  foregoing  section,  or  of  the  rules  and  regulations 
prescribed  by  the  Board  of  Health  with  reference  to  the  licensing 
of  master  plumbers,  shall  be  deemed  a  misdemeanor  and  be  pun- 
ished by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  $1.00  nor  more  than  $5.00. 

SEC.  29.  Garbage.  No  person  within  the  limits  of  the  City  of 
New  Britain  shall  mingle  with  garbage  intended  for  removal  by  the 
garbage  collector  any  ashes,  store  sweepings,  glass,  rubbish  or 
other  indestructible  waste,  but  such  garbage  shall  be  kept  wholly 
separate  and  apart  from  such  indestructible  waste  matter  in  metal 
cans  suitable  for  the  purpose,  properly  covered,  and  the  same 
shall  be  removed  by  the  garbage  collector  under  the  direction  of 
the  Health  Committee,  in  water  tight,'  covered  receptacles  or  carts. 
Said  committee  shall  make  such  provision  for  the  removal,  dispo- 
sition or  destruction  of  such  garbage  as  shall  be  as  inoffensive  to 
the  people  of  the  city,  and  as  little  prejudicial  to  the  health  as 
possible. 

SEC.  30.  Carrier  of  Garbage.  No  person  shall  be  a  carrier  of 
garbage  within  the  city  without  first  obtaining  from  the  Health 
Committee,'  a  permit  therefor,  which  shall  be  revocable  at  the 
pleasure  of  said  committee,  and  no  person  shall  carry  garbage 
through  the  streets  and  public  places  of  the  city  excepting  in  water 
tight  covered  receptacles  or  carts. 

SEC.  31.  Duties  of  Inspector,  etc.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
chairman  of  the  Health  Committee  and  the  Sanitary  Inspector,  to 
see  that  the  provisions  of  these  ordinances  are  complied  with,  and 
to  report  to  the  Prosecuting  Attorney  violations  thereof. 

SEC.  32.  Meaning  of  "  Garbage."  The  word  "garbage  "  as  used 
in  this  ordinance  shall  be  construed  to  mean  all  kinds  of  house 
garbage,  offal,  swill  and  other  refuse  or  waste  liable  to  decay. 

SEC.  33.  Violation  of  Ordinance.  The  violation  of  any  pro- 
vision of  this  ordinance  shall  be  deemed  a  nuisance  and  punished 
by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  one  dollar  ($1.00)  and  not  more  than 
five  dollars  ($5.00)  for  each  offence. 


CHAPTER  X.  45 

HEALTH. 


SEC.  34.  Payment  of  Laborers.  Whenever  laborers  are  em- 
ployed in  the  Health  Department  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  clerk 
of  the  Health  Committee  to  make  out  a  pay  roll  on  which  shall  be 
entered  the  names  of  every  employe,  the  number  of  hours  of  work 
performed  by  each  for  the  preceding  week,  and  the  place  where 
such  work  was  done,  including  teams,  if  any,  the  price  per  hour 
and  amount.  And  when  such  pay  roll  shall  have  been  approved 
by  the  Mayor,  an  order  shall  be  drawn  by  the  Auditor  for  the  full 
amount  of  the  same,  and  the  Auditor  shall  deliver  the  same  to  the 
City  Clerk,  who  shall  draw  the  money  on  said  order  and  pay  the 
employes  on  or  before  Saturday  of  each  week,  taking  a  receipt  for 
the  same  from  each  employe. 

SEC.  35.  Appointment  of  Milk  Inspector.  The  Mayor,  subject 
to  the  approval  of  the  Common  Council,  shall  appoint  one  person, 
who  shall  be  a  citizen  of  New  Britain,  who  also  shall  be  a  graduate 
of  a  recognized  Veterinary  College,  to  be  "Milk  Inspector." 

Said  appointment  in  1904  shall  be  made  within  thirty  (30)  days 
after  the  adoption  of  this  ordinance,  the  person  appointed  to  hold 
office  until  the  first  day  of  May,  1905,  or  until  his  successor  is 
duly  appointed  and  qualified,  and  thereafter  such  appointments 
shall  be  made  annually. 

SEC.  36.  Powers  and  Compensation.  The  Milk  Inspector  shall 
have  and  exercise  all  powers  and  authority  and  be  subject  to  all 
the  duties  and  limitations  which  the  statutes  impose  upon  or  require 
of  the  Milk  Inspector,  and  shall  perform  such  other  duties  as  may 
be  imposed  by  the  Common  Council.  He  shall  receive  such  com- 
pensation as  the  Common  Council  shall  from  time  to  time  determine. 

SEC.  37.  Annual  Report.  Said  Milk  Inspector  shall  annually 
on  or  before  the  third  Wednesday  in  April,  present  a  report  in 
writing  to  the  Mayor  and  Common  Council,  stating  the  number  of 
seizures  made  by  him,  the  places  from  which,  and  the  persons 
from  whom  the  seizures  were  made,  the  character  of  the  seizures, 
the  number  of  samples  taken  for  the  purpose  of  analysis,  the  result 
of  such  analysis  made  and  the  number  and  result  of  all  prosecutions. 


46  CHAPTERS  XI  &  XII. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

SEC.  38.  Registration  of  Dealers.  No  person  shall  sell  milk 
within  the  limits  of  said  city  unless  he  shall  have  registered  his 
name,  residence  and  number  in  a  book  kept  for  that  purpose  at 
the  office  of  the  Clerk  of  said  City. 


CHAPTER  XI. 

INCUMBRANCES  ON  RAILROAD  TRACKS. 
Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  New  Britain  : 

SECTION  i.  Highway  Not  to  be  Blocked.  No  locomotive  en- 
gine, car  or  train  of  cars  shall  be  permitted  to  remain  within  the 
city  limits,  standing  across  any  public  street  or  highway,  for  any 
period  of  time  longer  than  five  minutes. 

SEC.  2.  Penalty.  Every  person  or  corporation  using  or  having 
charge  of  such  locomotive  engine,  car  or  train  of  cars,  who  shall 
be  guilty  of  the  breach  of  any  requirement  of  this  ordinance,  shall 
be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  shall  forfeit  and  pay,  for  each 
offence,  the  sum  of  fifty  dollars,  for  the  use  of  said  city. 


CHAPTER  XII. 

JURORS. 
Be  it  Ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  New  Britain  : 

SECTION  i.  Penalty.  Every  juror  of  said  city,  who,  being 
legally  summoned  to  serve  as  a  juryman  at  the  City  Court  in  said 
city,  shall  refuse  or  neglect  to  attend  and  perform  such  service 
agreeably  to  such  summons,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty  of  five 
dollars  to  the  City  Treasurer,  unless  the  Court  shall,  on  hearing 
his  reasons  for  non-attendance,  judge  the  same  to  be  sufficient. 


CHAPTER    XIII.  47 

MEETINGS   OF  THE   CITY   AND   COMMON  COUNCIL. 

CHAPTER  XIII. 

MEETINGS  OF  THE  CITY  AND  COMMON  COUNCIL. 

Be  it  Ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  New  Britain  : 

SECTION  i.  Stated  Meetings.  There  shall  be  stated  monthly 
meetings  of  the  Common  Council,  at  the  Common  Council  room 
in  said  city,  for  the  transaction  of  all  legal  business,  on  the  third 
Wednesday  evening  of  each  month,  and  a  stated  annual  meeting 
for  the  choice  of  jurors,  on  the  third  Wednesday  in  June. 

SEC.  2.  Calling  of  City  and  Council  Meetings.  The  Mayor, 
or  in  case  of  his  absence  or  disability,  the  President  pro  tern,  of 
the  Common  Council  may  at  any  time,  and  when  thereunto  in- 
structed by  the  Common  Council,  shall  call  a  city  meeting ;  and 
may  at  any  time,  and  upon  the  request  in  writing  of  any  three 
Aldermen  and  four  Councilmen,  shall,  without  delay,  call  a  meet- 
ing of  the  Common  Council,  which  meeting  shall  be  called  by 
issuing  a  warrant  to  the  sheriff,  or  any  suitable  person  named 
therein,  requiring  him  to  notify  the  electors  of  said  city,  or  the 
members  of  the  Common  Council,  as  the  case  may  be,  that  such 
meeting  will  be  held  at  the  time  and  place  in  such  warrant  desig- 
nated. All  warrants,  in  the  case  of  city  meetings,  shall  specify 
the  object  thereof,  and  shall  be  served  at  least  three  days  before 
the  day  when  such  meeting  is  to  be  held,  by  causing  a  true  and 
attested  copy  thereof  to  be  published  in  at  least  one  newspaper 
published  in  said  city,  and  by  posting  a  like  copy  upon  the  public 
sign-post  therein;  and  shall  be  forthwith  returned  with  proper  in- 
dorsement to  the  City  Clerk,  and  be  by  him  recorded;  and  all 
warrants  for  meetings  of  the  Common  Council,  shall  be  served  by 
reading  the  same  in  the  hearing  of  each  member,  or  by  leaving  a 
copy  thereof  at  his  usual  place  of  abode;  and  shall  be  forthwith 
returned  with  a  proper  indorsement,  to  the  City  Clerk,  and  be  by 
him  recorded. 


48  CHAPTER  XIV. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

SEC.  3.  Time  of  Commencement.  All  stated  meetings  of  the 
Common  Council  and  all  special  meetings  thereof,  when  not  other- 
wise provided  in  the  warning,  shall  commence  at  eight  o'clock  in 
the  evening. 

SEC.  4.  Keeping  Records.  The  City  Clerk  shall  make  and 
keep  true  records,  properly  indexed,  of  all  proceedings  of  said 
city  and  Common  Council,  shall  be  clerk  of  all  committees  and 
keep  the  books  of  the  street  department. 

SEC.  5.  Duties  of  Assistant  City  Clerk.  It  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  Assistant  City  Clerk,  in  addition  to  his  duties  as  prescribed 
in  the  charter,  to  assist  the  City  Clerk  at  the  meetings  of  the  Com- 
mon Council  and  in  arranging  a  copy  of  the  minutes  for  the 
printer  the  following  day  and  otherwise  assist  the  City  Clerk  when 
called  upon  by  him. 


CHAPTER  XIY. 

NUISANCE. 

Be    it    Ordained   by    the    Common    Council    of  the    City    of  New 
Britain  : 

SECTION  i.  Nuisances ;  Penalty.  The  following  acts  when 
committed  within  said  city  are  declared  to  be  acts  of  nuisance, 
to  wit  : 

Keeping  or  maintaining  swine  or  pig  pens  shall  not  be  allowed 
within  the  city  limits  except  by  permission  of  the  Board  of  Health, 
nor  shall  any  such  permit  be  granted  unless  said  swine  or  pig  pen 
is  over  one  hundred  feet  from  any  dwelling  house  or  well. 

Building  any  hennery  or  keeping  hens  or  any  kinds  of  fowls  in 
any  coop,  building,  or  enclosure  within  forty  feet  of  any  street  line 
or  dwelling  house  or  public  building. 


CHAPTER  XIV.  49 

NUISANCE. 

Causing  or  permitting  the  accumulation,  or  the  placing  in  any 
building,  outhouse,  yard,  or  enclosure,  of  any  dung,  filth,  stable 
bedding,  offal,  wash,  dirty  water,  or  brine  which  shall  become 
offensive  to  any  person  ;  setting  up  or  continuing  any  privy  in 
such  place  or  manner  that  the  same  shall  become  unwholesome  or 
offensive  to  any  person. 

Making  or  maintaining  any  deposit  of  manure,  decaying  vegeta- 
bles, meat,  fish,  offal,  garbage  or  any  other  decaying  substances, 
except  in  an  enclosed  basement,  box  cellar  or  vault  within  a  less 
distance  than  fifty  feet  from  any  dwelling  house,  shop,  factory  or 
public  building  ;  depositing  or  maintaining  a  deposit  of  stable  bed- 
ding, outside  of  any  barn  or  stable  within  a  less  distance  than  fifty 
feet  from  any  dwelling  house,  shop,  factory,  or  public  building. 

Causing  or  permitting  wash  or  dirty  water  to  pass  from  yards  of 
houses,  through  drains  or  otherwise,  into  any  street,  or  upon. 

Depositing  or  placing,  or  causing  to  be  deposited  or  placed  in 
rear  of  any  business  block  or  tenement  house  or  upon  or  about  any 
street,  sidewalk,  gutter,  public  park,  stream,  pond  or  fountain  in 
said  city,  any  offal,  dead  animal,  animal  matter,  decaying  vegeta- 
ble matter,  garbage,  loose  papers,  handbills,  posters,  programs, 
notices,  advertising  cards,  dirt  (including  store,  house,  office  or 
saloon  sweepings),  ashes  or  rubbish  of  any  kind  whatever,  or  con- 
veying through  any  streets  thereof  any  offal,  or  dead  animal,  unless 
covered  from  sight. 

Fastening  any  animal  to  any  tree,  or  leaving  any  animal  so  that 
any  tree  in  said  city  shall  be  injured  by  such  animal. 

Erecting,  setting  up,  or  continuing  upon  any  street  or  highway, 
or  any  portion  of  the  same,  any  building,  fence,  or  gate. 

Causing  or  permitting  any  wagon,  cart  or  other  vehicle,  or  any 
animal,  to  remain  standing  upon  any  crosswalk  or  sidewalk  in  said 
city,  or  riding,  driving  or  leading  any  horse  or  other  animal  upon 
any  sidewalk  thereof,  riding  or  driving  any  horse  in  harness,  or 
otherwise,  upon,  over  or  across  any  sidewalk  at  a  gait  faster  than 
a  walk. 


50  CHAPTER  XIV. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

The  driving  with  any  sled,  sledge  or  sleigh,  in  or  through  any 
street  or  highway  of  said  city  without  a  bell  or  bells  attached  to 
such  sled,  sledge  or  sleigh,  or  to  the  horse  or  horses  drawing  the 
same. 

Injuring,  defacing,  or  soiling  any  public  or  private  building, 
fence  or  enclosure  ;  injuring  any  tree,  shrub,  plant,  or  other  vege- 
table production  in  the  streets  or  in  any  public  or  private  enclos- 
ures in  said  city. 

Tramping  upon  the  grounds  or  grass  outside  the  regular  walks 
in  the  public  parks  of  the  city,  or  injuring  any  of  the  trees,  plants, 
flowers  or  shrubbery  therein,  or  committing  any  nuisance  in  or 
about  said  parks. 

Making  any  loud  or  boisterous  noise  in  the  night  season  in  any 
street,  building,  or  other  place,  whereby  any  person  is  disturbed. 

Ringing  hand-bells  in  any  street  of  said  city,  to  advertise  auc- 
tion or  other  sales. 

Trespassing  in  any  garden  or  yard  in  said  city. 

Placing  any  mortar  bed,  or  placing  or  continuing  the  deposit  of 
any  building  material  in  any  street  in  said  city  without  a  license 
from  the  Common  Council  or  committee  thereof. 

Racing  or  trying  the  speed  of  horses  upon  any  street  in  said 
city. 

Carrying  on   of  any  trade   or  business   upon  the  sidewalks  or 
streets,  without  license  therefor ;    resisting,  molesting,  or  disturb- 
ing any  executive  or  police  officer  or  Street  Commissioner  of  said 
city  while  discharging  his  duty. 

Placing  any  sign  across  any  sidewalk  without  permission  from 
the  Common  Council. 

Assembling  idly  and  remaining  in  crowds  upon  any  footway, 
sidewalk,  or  crosswalk  in  any  street,  or  in  any  public  park  of  said 
city,  or  before  any  church  or  public  building ;  so  assembling  to 
the  number  of  three  or  more  persons,  and  refusing  to  disperse 
when  commanded  so  to  do  by  a  police  officer,  special  constable, 


CHAPTER  XIV.  51 

NUISANCE. 

or  other  officer  of  said  city  ;  or  reassembling  in  like  manner  with 
the  same  or  other  persons  upon  the  same  day  or  evening  after 
having  been  commanded  to  disperse. 

Sliding  down  hill  upon  sleds  or  otherwise,  upon  any  public 
street. 

Throwing  or  playing  with  any  ball  upon  any  public  street. 

Shooting  with  sling  or  air  guns  within  the  city  limits. 

Accumulating  in  or  near  any  building,  shavings,  hay,  husk, 
straw,  or  other  combustible  materials  in  such  a  manner  as  to  en- 
danger property  from  fire,  or  depositing  or  keeping  hay,  straw, 
husk,  or  other  combustible  materials  in  any  building  occupied 
wholly  or  in  part  as  a  dwelling. 

And  any  person  doing  or  committing  any  of  said  acts,  which  are 
misdemeanors  under  the  Charter,  or  who  shall  knowingly  aid  or 
assist  in  the  commission  of  the  same,  shall  be  fined  not  more  than 
twenty  ($20.00)  dollars  nor  less  than  five  ($5.00)  dollars  for  each 
offence,  and  each  day's  continuance  of  any  continuing  nuisance 
herein  before  mentioned,  shall  constitute  a  separate  and  distinct 
offence,  and  any  person  doing  or  committing  any  of  said  acts, 
which  are  not  misdemeanors  under  the  Charter,  or  who  shall 
knowingly  aid  or  assist  in  the  commission  of  the  same,  shall  forfeit 
and  pay  a  penalty  of  not  more  than  twenty  ($20.00)  dollars  and 
not  less  than  five  ($5.00)  dollars  for  each  offence,  and  each  day's 
continuance  of  any  continuing  nuisance  herein  before  mentioned, 
shall  constitute  a  separate  and  distinct  offence. 

SEC.  2.  Burial  bf  Dead  Animals;  Penalty.  Any  animal  that 
shall  die  or  be  found  dead  in  said  city,  except  when  such  animal 
shall  be  killed  for  food,  shall  be  properly  buried  by  the  owner 
thereof  upon  notice  by  the  police,  and  when  such  owner  is  not 
known,  or,  being  notified  as  aforesaid,  shall  neglect  or  refuse  to 
bury  said  animal,  the  same  shall  be  buried  by  the  police  at  the  ex- 
pense of  the  city ;  and  any  person  so  neglecting  or  refusing  shall 
forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than  twenty 
dollars. 


52  CHAPTER  XIV. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

SEC.  3.  Transportation  of  Night  Soil ;  Penalty.  No  person, 
without  the  consent  of  the  Health  Committee,  shall  convey  the 
contents  of  any  privy  vault,  or  cesspool,  through  any  street  of  said 
city,  except  in  a  tight  box,  and  between  the  first  day  of  November 
and  the  first  day  of  April  then  next  succeeding,  and  between  the 
hours  of  nine  and  five  o'clock,  in  the  night  season ;  and  any  per- 
son so  offending  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty  of  five  dollars  for 
each  offence. 

SEC.  4.  Privies  and  Cesspools.  No  person  without  the  consent 
of  the  Health  Committee,  shall  build  or  maintain  any  privy  or 
cesspool  in  said  city  within  forty  feet  of  any  well,  or  twenty-five 
feet  of  any  street  line,  dwelling  house,  shop,  factory,  or  public 
building,  nor  without  leaving  at  least  two  feet  of  solid  earth  or 
mason  work  laid  in  cement  between  such  privy  or  cesspool  and  the 
lot  adjoining. 

SEC.  5.  Privies  and  Privy  Vaults.  No  privy  shall  hereafter 
be  erected  or  suffer  to  remain  in  said  city,  unless  connected  with 
some  public  sewer,  or  unless  kept  clean  by  means  of  fresh  earth  or 
other  disinfectant,  or  without  having  a  vault  under  the  same  of  the 
depth  of  at  least  six  feet  of  the  full  length  and  width  of  such  privy, 
and  closed  up  all  sides  ;  nor  shall  said  vault  be  suffered  to  be  at 
any  time  filled  within  three  feet  of  the  general  surface  of  the  ground 
around  such  privy  ;  and  any  person  offending  against  the  pro- 
visions of  this  section,  and  of  section  fourth  of  this  ordinance, 
shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  or  more  than 
twenty  dollars  for  each  offence,  and  each  week's  continuance  thereof 
shall  be  deemed  a  separate  offence. 

SEC.  6.  Sewer  Connections.  All  persons  who  own  or  occupy 
any  land  fronting  a  street  through  which  a  sewer  is  or  shall  be 
built,  shall  connect  all  their  sink  drains,  water  closets  and  privies 
on  said  land  with  such  sewer,  and  no  cesspool  shall  be  built  or 
maintained  on  said  land  ;  and  any  person  offending  against  the 
provisions  of  this  section  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty  of  not  less 
than  five  nor  more  than  twenty  dollars  for  each  offence,  and  each 
week's  continuance  thereof  shall  be  deemed  a  separate  offence. 


CHAPTER   XV.  53 

ORDINANCES. 


CHAPTER  XV.    • 
ORDINANCES. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  New 
Britain  : 

SECTION  i.  Publication.  Every  ordinance  of  said  city  shall  be 
once  published  in  a  newspaper  in  said  city. 

SEC.  2.  When  Operative.  No  ordinance  shall  be  valid  and 
operative  until  it  has  been  once  so  published. 

SEC.  3.  Orders  and  Notices.  All  orders  and  notices  requiring 
publication  by  the  City  Charter,  and  all  orders  and  notices  pub- 
lished by  order  of  the  Street  Commissioner  or  any  other  city  offi- 
cer, in  any  newspaper,  shall  not  be  published  more  than  once  in 
such  paper,  except  by  special  order  of  the  Common  Council. 

SEC.  4.  To  be  Printed  in  Annual  Reports.  All  new  ordinances 
and  amendments  of  ordinances  shall  be  printed  with  the  annual 
reports  of  the  Mayor  and  several  departments. 

SEC.  5.  Repeal  of  Former  Ordinances.  All  the  ordinances  of 
said  city  in  force  on  the  15th  day  of  July,  1896,  shall  hereby, 
whenever  these  ordinances  go  into  effect  and  become  operative, 
viz.:  on  the  first  day  of  August,  1896,  be  repealed  except  the  ordi- 
nances on  streets  and  bicycles,  but  no  offence  committed  and  no 
liability,  penalty,  or  forfeiture  heretofore  incurred,  and  no  prose- 
cution or  suit  pending,  shall  be  affected,  and  no  ordinance  hereto- 
fore repealed,  shall  be  revived  by  this  repeal. 


54  CHAPTER    XVI. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

CHAPTER  XVI. 

POLICE. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  New 
Britain  : 

SECTION  i.  Police  Force.  There  shall  be  and  hereby  is  established 
a  police  force  of  said  city,  which  shall  consist  of  a  Chief  of  Police, 
a  Captain  of  Police,  and  not  more  than  sixteen  active  policemen, 
and  not  less  than  ten  or  more  than  fifty  supernumerary  policemen. 

SEC.  2.  Chief  of  Police.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Chief  of 
Police  to  superintend,  under  the  direction  of  the  Police  Commis- 
sioners of  said  city,  the  entire  police  force ;  to  inform  himself  of 
the  fidelity  and  efficiency  of  every  member  thereof  ;  to  have  charge 
of  and  be  responsible  for  the  condition  of  the  station  house  and  its 
furniture  ;  to  supply  the  same  with  lights  and  fuel,  and  the  inmates, 
if  any,  with  necessary  food,  at  the  expense  of  said  city  ;  to  attend 
on  the  Police  Court ;  to  receive  from  members  of  said  force  all 
complaints  of  violations  of  the  public  law  or  the  city  ordinances, 
and  see  that  the  same  are  prosecuted  ;  to  report  all  cases  requiring 
a  written  complaint  to  the  Prosecuting  Attorney  or  the  Assistant 
City  Attorney  ;  to  designate  a  supernumerary  policeman  to  take 
the  place  of  any  active  policeman  absent  from  duty ;  to  call  into 
active  service  the  supernumerary  police  or  any  portion  of  the  same, 
when  authorized  thereto  by  the  Mayor,  acting  Mayor  or  the  Police 
Commissioners  ;  to  be  present  at  all  fires  in  said  city  and  assist 
thereat  in  the  preservation  of  order  and  the  protection  of  life  and 
property,  and  in  all  legal  ways  to  guard  the  peace  of  said  city, 

SEC.  3.  Expenditures  to  be  Approved ;  Witness  Fees,  etc.  It 
shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Chief  of  Police  to  make  out  monthly  and 
present  to  the  Judge  of  the  Police  Court  a  detailed  statement  of  all 
moneys  expended  by  him  for  the  department.  Said  statement 


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POLICE. 


must  be  approved  by  the  said  Judge  of  the  Police  Court  before 
the  Clerk  of  the  Court  shall  be  authorized  to  draw  an  order  or 
pay  the  amount  of  the  statement.  And  said  Clerk  of  the  Court 
shall  be  responsible  to  said  Court  for  the  amount  of  any  statement 
paid  by  him  which  has  not  been  approved  by  the  said  Judge  of 
the  Police  Court.  The  Clerk  of  said  Court  shall  not  be  authorized 
to  pay  out  any  moneys  except  for  witness  fees  and  the  fees  of  the 
Prosecuting  Attorney  and  the  Assistant  Attorney,  nor  to  contract 
any  bills  except  by  order  of  the  Judge  of  the  Police  Court. 

SEC.  4.  Captain  of  Police.  In  case  of  the  absence  from  said 
city  of  the  Chief  of  Police  or  his  inability  to  discharge  the  duties 
required  of  him  by  this  ordinance,  the  Captain  of  Police  shall, 
during  such  absence  or  inability,  be  Acting  Chief  of  Police. 

SEC.  5.  Policemen,  Their  Duties.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of 
Policemen  to  obey  all  lawful  orders  and  directions  of  the  Mayor, 
Police  Commissioners  and  Chief  of  Police  ;  to  guard  the  city  day 
and  night ;  to  report  to  the  Chief  of  Police  all  violations  of  the 
laws  of  the  State,  and  ordinances  of  said  city,  all  suspicious  per- 
sons, all  houses  of  ill-fame,  all  gaming  houses,  all  disorderly  and 
suspicious  places  of  resort ;  to  preserve  the  public  peace  ;  to  se- 
cure the  detection,  arrest  and  conviction  of  offenders,  and  render 
all  possible  assistance  to  the  ministers  of  the  law  ;  to  be  present 
and  on  duty  at  all  fires  in  said  city,  when  not  otherwise  specially 
employed  ;  to  serve  processes  of  the  Police  Court  and  notices  or- 
dered by  the  Common  Council ;  to  direct  strangers  the  nearest 
way  to  their  places  of  destination,  to  keep  open  and  free  from  ob- 
struction by  vehicles,  crowds,  or  groups  of  persons,  or  other  things, 
the  streets,  sidewalks,  and  public  places  of  said  city  ;  and  in  gen: 
eral  to  perform  the  duties  assigned  them  in  these  ordinances,  and 
do  all  in  their  power  to  preserve  the  peace  and  protect  life  and 
property. 

SEC.  6.  -  Badges.  The  Chief  of  Police  and  other  members  of 
the  police  force  shall  wear,  when  on  duty,  their  distinguishing 
badges,  as  prescribed  by  the  Police  Commissioners. 


56  CHAPTER    XVI. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

SEC.  7.  To  Assign  Fees  to  the  City.  No  fee  or  compensation, 
other  than  the  regular  pay,  shall  be  charged  or  received  by  any 
member  of  the  Police  force,  but  each  member  shall,  before  enter- 
ing upon  the  discharge  of  the  duties  of  his  office,  execute  in  writ- 
ing an  assignment  to  the  Treasurer  of  said  city  of  all  his  interests 
in  any  fees  which  may  be  taxed  in  his  favor  in  the  Police  or  City 
Court  in  causes  in  which  said  city  is  a  party,  and  no  member  of 
the  force  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  any  salary  for  any  services 
rendered  by  him,  until  such  assignment  shall  have  been  executed 
to  the  satisfaction  of  the  Police  Commissioners,  and  lodged  on  file 
in  the  office  of  the  City  Clerk  ;  nor  shall  any  member  of  the  force 
receive  any  present  or  reward  for  services  rendered,  or  to  be  ren- 
dered, by  him  unless  with  the  consent  of  the  Common  Council. 

SEC.  8.  Policemen's  Qualifications.  Every  member  of  the  Po- 
lice force,  shall,  at  the  time  of  his  appointment,  be  a  citizen  of  the 
United  States  and  an  elector  in  said  city,  and  able  to  speak,  read, 
and  write  the  English  language,  and  shall  before  entering  upon  the 
discharge  of  the  duties  of  his  office,  make  oath  or  affirmation,  be- 
fore the  City  Clerk  that  he  will  support  the  Constitution  of  the 
United  States  and  of  the  State  of  Connecticut,  and  will  faithfully 
discharge  the  duties  of  his  office,  and  shall  cause  a  certificate  of 
such  oath  or  affirmation  to  be  lodged  with  the  City  Clerk. 

SEC.  9.  Pay  of  Police.  The  pay  of  Chief  of  Police  shall  be 
one  thousand  one  hundred  dollars  per  year.  The  pay  of  the  Cap- 
tain of  the  police  shall  be  one  thousand  dollars  per  year,  and  the 
pay  of  the  active  policemen  nine  hundred  dollars  per  year,  and  at 
the  same  rate  for  each  supernumerary  for  each  day  of  actual  ser- 
vice, except  the  supernumeraries  detailed  for  fire  police  duty,  who 
shall  be  paid  as  stated  in  section  15  of  this  chapter. 

SEC.  10.  Cause  for  Preferment  of  Charges.  The  wilful  breach 
of  any  law  of  this  State,  or  ordinance  of  said  city,  neglect  of  duty, 
inefficiency,  insubordination,  or  other  disgraceful  or  improper 
conduct  which  will  bring  discredit  on  the  police  force  or  impair  its 


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POLICE. 

usefulness,  shall  be  considered  sufficient  cause  for  the  preferment 
of  charges  against  the  officer  so  offending,  under  the  provisions  of 
the  charter  of  said  city. 

SEC.  ii.  Policemen,  Conduct  of.  Every  member  of  the  force 
who  shall,  while  on  duty,  enter  any  tippling,  or  bawdy,  or  other- 
wise disorderly  house,  unless  to  suppress  disturbance,  or  upon  the 
order  of  his  superior  officer,  or  shall  become  intoxicated,  or  shall 
interfere  in  any  caucus  or  primary  election,  or  shall  attempt,  either 
directly  or  indirectly,  to  influence  any  elector  in  the  exercise  of 
his  right  of  voting,  or  shall  attend  to  any  poll  or  voting  place  unless 
so  directed  by  his  superior  officer,  shall  be  removed  from  his  place 
in  said  department,  and  be  ineligible  to  reappointment  for  the  term 
of  one  year. 

SEC.  12.  Acting  as  Town  Officer  or  Engaging  in  Private  Busi- 
ness. Any  policeman  who  shall  act  as  a  Constable  of  the  town  of 
New  Britain,  or  who  shall  act  as  any  other  officer  of  said  town,  in 
any  capacity  in  which  he  is  entitled  to  receive  salary,  fees,  or 
emoluments,  or  who  shall  engage  in  any  private  business  interfer- 
ing at  all  with  his  duties  as  a  policeman,  shall  be  deemed  to 
have  tendered  his  resignation  as  a  policeman,  and  the  same  shall 
be  accepted  by  the  Police  Commissioners  and  his  place  as  police- 
man be  filled  or  declared  vacant. 

SEC.  13.  Street  Lights  and  Side  Walks.  It  shall  be  the  duty 
of  every  policeman  to  report  to  the  Chief,  on  blanks  provided  for 
the  purpose,  each  morning  whether  or  not  the  electric  or  naptha 
lamps  on  his  beat  were  giving  proper  light  during  such  time  as  the 
light  should  be  in  running  order.  In  case  any  light  should  be  out 
for  any  length  of  time,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  patrolman  on 
that  beat  to  report  the  same  to  the  Chief  as  much  in  detail  as  may 
be  required.  It  shall  also  be  the  duty  of  each  patrolman  to  report 
to  the  Chief  on  blanks  provided  for  that  purpose  the  names  of  all 
property  holders  whose  walks  have  not  been  cleaned  of  snow,  in 
accordance  with  the  ordinance  entitled  "  Streets."  It  shall  be  the 
duty  of  the  Chief  of  Police  to  hand  a  list  of  such  names  to  the 
Prosecuting  Attorney. 


58  CHAPTER    XVI. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

SEC.  14.  Janitor  for  City  Building.  The  Police  Commissioners 
shall  have  full  charge  and  care  of  the  city  building  on  Commercial 
street,  and  may  appoint  a  janitor  for  the  same,  whose  salary  shall 
be  fixed  by  the  Common  Council  and  paid  from  the  general  funds 
of  the  city. 

SEC.  15.  Attendance  at  Fires.  The  Police  Commissioners  shall 
detail  from  among  the  members  of  the  supernumerary  police,  a 
number  of  not  less  than  five  for  such  a  time  as  may  be  deemed 
sufficient  and  best,  who  shall  receive  pay  while  on  this  special 
duty  at  the  rate  of  sixty  cents  for  the  first  hour  and  forty  cents  per 
hour  for  such  other  time  as  they  shall  be  needed  ;  the  duty  of  said 
special  detail  shall  be  to  attend  all  fires,  answer  every  alarm,  and 
under  the  direction  of  the  Chief  of  Police,  or  other  officer  in  com- 
mand, to  guard  the  approaches  to  any  building  or  buildings  on 
fire  with  ropes  or  other  apparatus,  and  unless  ordered  by  the  Chief 
of  Police  or  other  officer  in  command,  not  to  permit  within  the 
lines  any  person  not  a  member  of  the  Fire  and  Police  Departments; 
the  Mayor,  Fire  and  Police  Commissioners,  and  owners  of  the 
property  excepted  and  to  perform  such  other  duties  as  may  be 
required  of  them  by  the  Chief  of  Police  or  other  officer  in  com- 
mand ;  and  any  person  who  shall  force  his  way  within  such  lines 
against  the  order  of  such  police,  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor 
and  subject  to  instant  arrest,  and  to  such  fine  not  exceeding  twenty 
dollars  as  may  be  imposed  by  the  police  court. 

All  ordinances  inconsistent  with  the  foregoing  are  hereby  repealed. 


CHAPTER   XVII.  59 

PUBLIC    CONVEYANCES. 

CHAPTER  XVII. 

PUBLIC   CONVEYANCES. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  New  Britain  : 

SECTION  i.  Public  Carriages.  Every  hack,  omnibus,  cab, 
coach,  barouche,  or  other  vehicle  on  wheels  or  on  runners  and 
drawn  by  one  or  more  animals,  which  shall  be  used  in  said  city  for 
carrying  persons  for  hire,  shall  be  deemed  a  public  carriage  within 
the  meaning  of  this  ordinance. 

SEC.  2.  How  Licensed.  No  public  carriages  shall  be  used 
within  the  limits  of  said  city  unless  the  same  shall  be  duly  licensed 
by  the  City  Clerk,  and  every  such  license  shall  be  in  writing,  and 
expire  on  the  first  Monday  in  May  succeeding  its  date,  and  shall 
be  recorded  before  being  issued  by  the  City  Clerk  in  a  book  kept 
for  that  purpose.  Every  license  issued  shall  be  countersigned  by 
the  Chief  of  Police. 

SEC.  3.  License  Fees.  No  public  carriage  shall  be  licensed  as 
aforesaid  until  the  owner  thereof  shall  have  paid  the  clerk  of  said 
city,  license  fee,  as  follows,  namely  :  For  each  public  carriage,  or 
other  vehicle  drawn  by  two  or  more  horses  or  other  animals,  two 
dollars ;  drawn  by  one  animal,  one  dollar ;  and  the  receipt  of  the 
City  Clerk  for  the  same  shall  be  filed  with  the  Chief  of  Police,  and 
shall  be  sufficient  evidence  of  the  payment  of  the  aforesaid  fee. 

SEC.  4.     Rate  of  Fares.     The  rate  of  fares  to  be  charged  by  the 
proprietors    or   drivers    of   public  carriages  shall  not  exceed  the 
following  : 
For  Carrying  One  Passenger  any  distance  within  the  limits 

of  said  city,  250 

For  Carrying  One  Passenger  with  One  Trunk,    -  5oc 

Two  Passengers,        -  SOG 

Two  Passengers  with  One  or  Two  Trunks,  75c 

Three  Passengers,     -  75c 


60  CHAPTER    XVII. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

Three  Passengers  with  Two  or  Three  Trunks,  $1.00 

Four  Passengers,       -  -        i.oo 

and  with  One  or  Two  Trunks,  The  Same. 

Four  Passengers,  with  Three  or  Four  Trunks,    -  -        i.25 

For  Carrying  Passengers  a  greater  distance  than  within  the 

limits  of  the  city,  for  each  passenger  or  trunk,  2$c      extra 

For  carrying  Children  between  the  ages  of  Four  and  Twelve 

Years,  one-half  of  the  above  rates  only  shall  be  charged  ; 

and    not  over  15   cents  shall  be  charged  for  each   and 

every  trunk  exceeding  the  number  mentioned  above. 
For  the  Use  of  a  Public  Carriage  by  the  hour,  for  the  first 

hour  $2.00,  and  at  the  rate  of  $1.00  per  hour  after  the 

first  hour  until  12  o'clock  midnight,  and  one  dollar  per 

hour  extra  thereafter  until  6  o'clock  a.m. 

For  going  to  and  from  funerals,  $3.00 

Attending  upon  Weddings,  t  3.00 

To  and  from  Receptions,  Dances,  etc.  until  i  a.m.     -         -        2.00 
And  until  two  o'clock' and  after,  -       3.00 

To  and  from  Christenings,  2.00 

SEC.  5.  Owner's  Name,  etc.  The  name  of  the  owner,  the  num- 
ber of  the  license  and  the  rates  of  fare,  as  prescribed  by  this  ordi- 
nance, shall  be  conspicuously  exhibited  upon  a  card  placed  upon 
the  inside  of  each  public  carriage,  and  the  number  of  said  license 
shall  also  be  fastened  or  painted  conspicuously  upon  the  lamps 
upon  each  side  of  said  vehicle. 

SEC.  6.  Penalty.  Every  person,  whether  the  owner  or  driver 
of  a  public  carriage  or  other  vehicle,  who  shall  violate  any  of  the 
provisions  of  the  preceding  sections  of  this  ordinance,  shall  forfeit 
and  pay  for  each  offense  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  nor  more 
than  twenty-five  dollars. 

SEC.  7.  Waiting  Stand.  No  hack,  barouche,  cab,  omnibus,  coach, 
or  other  vehicle  on  wheels  or  on  runners,  which  shall  be  used  in 
said  city  for  hire,  and  no  baggage  wagon,  express  wagon,  cart,  truck 


CHAPTER  XVIII.  61 

SALARIES    AND    BONDS. 


or  dray,  or  other  vehicle  on  wheels  or  runners,  which  shall  be  used 
or  employed  in  said  city  for  the  conveyance  of  baggage,  goods,  mer- 
chandise, wares,  freights,  or  anything  whatever  for  hire  or  for  the 
sale  thereof,  shall  stand  at  any  place  in  said  city  for  such  purpose 
or  waiting  for  employment  except  on  the  west  side  of  the  public 
park  of  the  city  in  such  order  or  manner  as  the  Chief  of  Police 
may  prescribe. 

SEC.  8.  Penalty.  Any  person  who  shall  violate  the  provisions 
of  section  seven  of  this  ordinance  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty 
of  not  less  than  one  dollar  and  not  more  than  five  dollars  for  each 
offence. 


CHAPTER  XVIII. 

SALARIES  AND  BONDS. 

Be  it  Ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  New  Britain  : 

SECTION  i.      Salaries.     The  salaries  and   compensations    of  the 
several  officers  and  employees  of  the  city  shall  be  as  follows,  to  wit: 

The  Mayor,  -     $  600.00  per  annum 

The  salary  and  compensation  of  the   City 

Clerk  shall  be  fifteen  hundred  dollars  per 

annum,   -  -     1,500.00          " 

The  salary  and  compensation  of  the  Assistant 

City  Clerk  shall  be  one  hundred  dollars  per 

annum,   -  100.00          " 

The   salary  and   compensation   of  the   City 

Auditor  shall  be  four  hundred  dollars  per 

annum,   -  400.00          " 

The  Treasurer,   -  100.00          " 

The  Judge  of  the  Police  Court,   -  1,000.00          " 


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CHAPTER  XVIII. 
NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 


Assistant  Judge  of  the  Police  Court,    - 

Clerk  of  the  Police  Court,   - 

Corporation  Counsel, 

Prosecuting  Attorney, 

Assistant  City  Attorney, 

City  Sheriff, 

City  Health  Officer, 

Sanitary  Inspector, 

City  Rate  Maker, 

Street  Commissioner, 

And  $200.00  per  annum  for  use  of  his 
team,  said  #200.00  to  be  taken  from 
the  appropriation  for  streets  and  pay- 
able quarterly. 

The  salary  and  compensation  of  the  city  sur- 
veyor shall  be  two  thousand  dollars  per 
annum,  - 

The  salary  and  compensation  of  the  chair- 
man of  the  board  of  Fire  Commissioners 
shall  be  two  hundred  dollars  per  annum, 
Chairman  of  board  of  Water  Commissioners, 
Other  members  of  board  fees  per  meet- 
ing,  $3.00. 

Chairman  of  Street  Committee,   - 
Members  of  board  of  Street  Commissioners 

(each)     - 

Members  of  board  of  Subway  Commission- 
ers (each) 

Members  of  the  board  of  Sewer  Commis- 
sioners, fees  per  meeting,  $3.00. 
Clerk  of  the  board  of  Water  Commissioners, 
Clerk  of  the  board  of  Street  Commissioners, 
Clerk  of  the  board  of  Sewer  Commissioners, 
Clerk  of  the  board  of  Fire  Commissioners, 


250.00  per  annum 

500.00  " 

1,500.00  " 

800.00  " 

275.00  " 

225.00  " 

500.00  " 

600.00  " 

225.00  " 

1,200.00  " 


2,000.00 


200.00 
1,000.00 


300.00 
150.00 


800.00 
400.00 
300.00 
100.00 


CHAPTER  XVIII. 
SALARIES    AND    BONDS. 


Clerk  of  the  board  of  Police  Commissioners,          100.00  per  annum 
Clerk  of  board  of  Subway  Commissioners,  50.00          " 

Sealer  of  Weights  and  Measures,  fees 

Superintendent  of  Electrical  Department,  950.00          " 

Chief  Engineer  of  the  Fire  Department,  -  450.00  " 
Assistant  Engineer  of  the  Fire  Department,  350.00  " 
Engineer  of  each  steam  fire  engine,  -  300.00  " 

Stoker  of  each  steam  fire  engine,  220.00          " 

Foremen  of  hose  companies,  250.00          " 

Assistant  Foremen  of  hose  companies,  225.00          " 

Members  of  hose  companies  (each)     -  200.00          " 

Permanent  drivers,     -  800.00          " 

Chief  of  Police,  i,  100.00         " 

Captain  of  Police,  -      1,000.00          " 

Policemen  (each)  900.00          " 

The  Collector  of  Taxes,  one  per  cent,  on  the  amount  of  taxes 
collected,  and  three-fourths  of  .one  per  cent,  on  the  amount  of 
street,  sewer  and  stream  assessments  collected. 

SEC.  2-  Pay  Rolls.  The  City  Auditor  shall  draw  his  order 
semi-monthly  on  the  City  Treasurer  for  the  payment  of  each  regu- 
lar member  of  the  Police  Force  and  each  permanent  driver  of  the 
Fire  Department,  and  weekly  for  the  payment  of  each  laborer  in 
the  employment  of  the  Street,  Subway  and  Health  Departments  of 
said  city,  and  monthly  for  each  supernumerary  member  of  the 
Police  Force  and  all  city  officers,  and  quarterly  for  each  member 
of  the  Fire  Detail  of  the  Police  Force  ;  provided  that  the  bills  or 
pay  rolls  presented  to  the  Auditor  by  the  said  Police  Officers,  Per- 
manent Drivers,  employees  of  the  Street,  Subway  and  Health  De- 
partments and  City  Officers,  for  their  respective  salaries  or  wages 
shall  each  be  separately  approved  by  the  Mayor,  he  shall  then  de- 
liver the  above  orders  to  the  City  Clerk,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to 
disburse  the  same  and  obtain  receipts  therefor. 

SEC.  3.  Bonds  of  City  Officers.  All  bonds  of  city  officers  shall 
be  payable  in  said  city  to  the  Mayor  and  his  successors  in  office, 


64  CHAPTER    XVIII. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

and  shall  be  executed  by  the  principal,  and  when  not  otherwise 
provided,  two  sufficient  sureties  to  the  approbation  of  the  Mayor 
and  four  Aldermen  ;  such  bond  shall  be  conditioned  on  the  faith- 
ful performance  by  the  principal  of  all  his  official  duties  due  to 
said  city  by  virtue  of  his  appointment,  and  on  his  saving  the  city 
harmless  from  all  loss,  cost  or  damage,  by  reason  of  his  malfeas- 
ance in  office,  and  on  his  rendering  a  true  account  of  all  his  money 
dealings  for,  in  behalf  of,  and  with  said  city,  and  on  his  just  and 
true  payment  to  the  City  Treasurer  of  all  moneys  in  his  hands  at 
any  time  as  an  officer  or  agent  of  said  city  for  and  during  the  en- 
tire period  for  which  he  shall  remain  in  his  office  by  appointment 
or  election.  Such  bonds  shall  be  given  before  such  officer  shall 
enter  upon  his  official  duties,  and  in  case  of  the  refusal  or  neglect 
of  such  officer  to  give  such  bonds,  his  office  shall  be  deemed  vacant. 

SEC.  4.  Penalties  of  the  Bond.  The  penalties  of  the  bond  re- 
quired of  the  several  city  officers  shall  be  respectively  as  follows  : 
Of  the  City  Clerk,  three  thousand  dollars  ;  of  the  City  Treasurer, 
fifteen  thousand  dollars  ;  of  the  City  Auditor,  three  thousand  dol- 
lars ;  of  the  City  Collector,  twenty  thousand  dollars  ;  of  the  City 
Sheriff,  two  thousand  dollars  ;  of  the  clerk  of  the  city  and  police 
courts,  one  thousand  dollars  ;  of  the  City  Surveyor,  five  thousand 
dollars  ;  of  the  Street  Commissioner,  two  thousand  dollars  ;  of  the 
chairman  of  the  board  of  Water  Commissioners,  fifteen  thousand 
dollars,  and  of  the  other  members  of  said  board,  five  hundred  dol- 
lars each  ;  of  the  Sewer  Commissioners,  three  thousand  dollars 
each  ;  of  the  chairman  of  the  board  of  Fire  Commissioners,  two 
thousand  five  hundred  dollars  ;  of  the  chairman  of  the  board  of 
Police  Commissioners,  one  thousand  dollars  ;  and  of  the  Subway 
Commissioners,  two  thousand  dollars  each. 

SEC.  5.  Di*bursir>g  Officers  and  Committees  Every  committee 
and  every  c'ty  officer,  in  whose  hands  money  may  be  placed  for 
disbursement,  shall,  unless  otherwise  provided  in  these  ordinances, 
first  give  bonds  to  said  city  for  the  faithful  disbursement  of  the 
same  in  such  sums  as  the  Mayor  and  Aldermen  shall  require. 


CHAPTER    XIX.  65 

SEWERS. 

SEC.  6.  Surety  Bonds  Required ;  Duties  of  Mayor.  No  private 
individual  or  individuals  shall  hereafter  be  accepted  as  sureties  on 
the  bonds  of  city  officials.  All  such  officials  required  by  the  char- 
ter or  ordinances  of  this  city  to  furnish  bords  shall  obtain  as  sureties 
some  responsible  surety  company. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Mayor  to  see  that  the  oath  of  office 
shall  not  be  administered  to  any  city  official  required  by  the  char- 
ter or  ordinances  to  furnish  a  bond,  until  such  surety  bond  shall 
be  filed  with  the  said  Mayor,  and  the  proper  approval  of  the  neces- 
sary number  of  aldermen  and  the  approval  of  the  Mayor  with  the 
date  and  time  of  filing  said  bond  shall  be  endorsed  thereon.  It 
shall  be  the  further  duty  of  the  Mayor  to  cause  all  such  bonds  with 
all  endorsements  thereon  to  be  recorded  at  length  by  the  City 
Clerk,  immediately  upon  the  filing  of  the  same  on  the  records  of 
the  city.  The  Mayor  shall  at  all  times  be  responsible  for  the  safe 
keeping  of  all  such  bonds.  All  ordinances  or  parts  of  ordinances 
inconsistent  herewith  are  hereby  repealed. 


CHAPTER  XIX. 

SEWERS. 
Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common   Council  of  the  City  of  New  Britain : 

SECTION  i.  Sewer  Commissioners,  Compensation.  Each  one  of 
the  board  of  Sewer  Commissioners  shall  receive  three  dollars  for 
each  day  of  actual  employment  in  the  duties  of  his  office,  and  shall 
report  monthly  to  the  Common  Council  the  number  of  days  of 
said  employment  during  the  previous  month. 

SEC.  2.  To  Give  Bonds.  Each  member  of  the  board  of  Sewer 
Commissioners  shall  give  bond,  with  at  least  one  sufficient  surety, 
in  the  sum  of  three  thousand  dollars,  for  the  faithful  performance 
of  his  duty. 


66  CHAPTER    XIX. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

SEC.  3.  To  Keep  Record  and  Report.  Said  board  of  Sewer 
Commissioners  shall  keep  record  of  their  official  doings,  and  report 
the  same  annually  to  the  Common  Council,  at  its  first  meeting  in 
April. 

SEC.  4.  Permission  for  Sewer  Connections.  No  person  or  cor- 
poration shall  make  any  connection  of  sewers  or  drains  with  any 
public  sewers  without  written  permission,  signed  by  a  majority  of 
the  members  of  the  Board  of  Sewer  Commissioners.  And  any  per- 
son offending  against  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  forfeit  and 
pay  to  the  city  a  penalty  of  fifty  dollars  for  each  offense. 

SEC.  5.  Steam  in  Sewers.  No  person  or  corporation  shall  al- 
low steam  from  the  premises  owned  and  occupied  by  them  to  enter 
any  public  sewer,  nor  shall  they  without  the  consent  of  the  Com- 
mon Council  first  obtained,  allow  air  to  be  forced  from  such  prem- 
ises into  any  sewer,  by  means  of  a  blower  or  otherwise,  and  any 
person  offending  against  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  forfeit 
and  pay  to  the  city  a  penalty  of  fifty  dollars  for  each  offense,  and 
each  week's  continued  violation  shall  constitute  a  separate  offence. 

SEC.  6.  Repair  and  Cleaning  of  Sewers;  Coat  nf  New  Sewers  It 
shall  be  the  duty  of  the  board  of  Sewer  Commissioners  to  supervise 
and  direct  the  repair  and  cleaning  of  all  sewers  and  their  appur- 
tenances whenever  the  same  shall  be  necessary,  and  to  keep  the 
same  properly  cleaned  and  repaired,  except  the  cleaning  of  the 
catch  basins  and  receivers,  and  also  to  execute  and  perform  all 
orders  and  directions  of  the  Common  Council  in  relation  to  changes 
in  the  sewer  department. 

All  recommendations  of  the  Sewer  Commissioners  to  the  Council 
in  regard  to  the  building  of  new  sewers  shall  contain  a  careful 
estimate  of  the  cost  of  construction  as  well  as  of  the  amount  of 
probable  assessment. 

SEC.  7.     Payment  of  Bills.     The  bills  for  the  work  ordered  to 
be  performed  by  the  board  of  Sewer  Commissioners  in  the  forego 
ing  section,  when  approved  by  a  majority  of  the  board,  shall  be 


CHAPTER  XX.  67 

STOPPAGE    OF    CARS    AND    VEHICLES     IN     CASE     OF 
EMERGENCY. 

presented  to  the  Common  Council,  and  ordered  paid  from  the 
funds  which  may  be  appropriated  for  the  sewer  department  for  that 
purpose. 

SEC.  8.  Connections  with  Sewer.  Whenever  a  petition  for  per- 
mission to  connect  property  with  a  sewer  in  an  adjacent  street  shall 
be  referred  to  the  board  of  Sewer  Commissioners  with  power,  no 
permit  shall  be  issued  for  such  connection  until  the  assessment  for 
the  same  shall  have  been  levied  by  the  board  of  Street  Commis- 
sioners and  by  them  reported  to  the  Common  Council. 

SEC.  9.  Reports,  Map,  etc.  Upon  the  completion  of  any  sewer 
ordered  by  the  Common  Council  the  board  of  Sewer  Commission- 
ers shall  make  a  report  of  the  same  to  the  Common  Council  and 
accompany  said  report  with  all  necessary  maps,  profiles,  etc., 
necessary  for  the  laying  of  sewer  assessments. 

SEC.  10.  Digging  Up  Streets  The  Sewer  Commissioners  be- 
fore granting  permits  to  property  owners  to  connect  their  premises 
with  sewer  mains  shall  require  such  property  owners  to  show  a  per- 
mit to  dig  up  the  street  for  that  purpose,  signed  by  the  Street 
Commissioner. 


CHAPTER  XX. 

STOPPAGE    OF     CARS     AND    VEHICLES    IN    CASE    OF 
EMERGENCY. 

Be  it  Ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  New 
Britain : 

SECTION  i.  Powers  of  Mayor.  Whenever  in  the  opinion  of  the 
Mayor  of  the  city  an  emergency  arises  calling  for  the  cessation  of 
the  running  of  cars  and  other  vehicles  through  any  of  the  streets 
of  the  city  the  Mayor  may  issue  an  order  to  all  parties  concerned 
over  his  hand  as  Mayor  and  the  City  Seal  ordering  the  cessation 


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NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

of  such  traffic  during  such  period  as  he  shall  deem  the  emergency 
requires,  and  upon  such  notice  as  he  shall  deem  reasonable.  It 
shall  be  the  duty  of  all  corporations  and  persons  to  strictly  con- 
form to  and  obey  such  order.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Chief  of 
Police,  upon  being  notified  of  the  issuing  of  such  order  to  strictly 
enforce  the  same. 

SEC.  2.  Penalty,  Any  person  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of 
this  ordinance  shall  forfeit  and  pay  to  the  City  of  New  Britain  the 
sum  of  twenty-five  ($25)  dollars  for  each  offense. 


CHAPTER  XXI. 

STREETS. 
Be  it  Ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  New  Britain  : 

SECTION  i.  Street  Commissioners,  Pay  of.  Each  member  of 
the  board  of  Street  Commissioners  shall  receive  a  salary  of  one 
hundred  and  fifty  (#150.00)  dollars  per  year  in  full  for  all  his  ser- 
vices as  a  member  of  such  board. 

SEC.  2.  Clerk,  Duties  and  Compensation.  The  board  of  Street 
Commissioners  shall  appoint  a  clerk  whose  salary  shall  be  four 
hundred  dollars  ($400.00)  per  annum.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of 
said  clerk  to  keep  a  record  of  the  doings  of  said  board  in  a  book 
provided  for  that  purpose  ;  and  when  said  board  has  completed  an 
assessment  of  damages  and  benefits  occasioned  by  any  public  im- 
provement submitted  to  said  board,  to  make  a  written  report  to 
the  city  clerk,  giving  the  amounts  of  such  assessments  and  the 
names  of  the  parties  for  and  against  whom  the  assessments  are 
made,  accompanied  also  with  a  description  of  the  real  estate  upon 
account  of  which  said  assessments  have  severally  been  made.  It 
shall  be  the  duty  of  the  City  Clerk  to  keep  said  report  on  file  in 
his  office  for  the  purpose  of  filing  liens  upon  the  property  described 
therein,  for  the  security  of  amounts  due  the  city  on  account  of 
such  assessments. 


CHAPTER   XXI.  69 

STREETS. 

SEC.  3.  Notice,  How  Given.  Before  making  any  assessment 
of  damages  and  benefits  said  board  of  Street  Commissioners  shall 
give  written  notice  to  the  parties  interested  of  the  time  and  place 
when  and  where  it  will  meet  to  hear  them,  which  notice,  as  to  resi- 
dents of  said  city,  shall  be  served  by  the  city  sheriff  or  other  in- 
different person  reading  the  same  in  the  hearing  of  each  party  to 
be  notified,  or  by  leaving  a  copy  thereof  with  said  party  or  at  said 
party's  usual  place  of  abode,  at  least  three  days  before  the  date  of 
such  hearing  ;  and  which  notice  as  to  non-residents  shall  be  served 
by  the  city  sheriff  or  other  indifferent  person  by  mailing,  by  regis- 
tered mail,  post  paid,  at  least  one  week  before  said  hearing,  a  copy 
of  said  notice  to  the  last  known  address  of  such  non-resident. 

SEC.  4.  Street  Commissioner,  Election  and  Bond.  There  shall 
be  an  officer  appointed  for  said  city  to  be  called  the  Street  Com- 
missioner, who  shall  hereafter  be  elected  annually  in  the  month  of 
April,  after  the  third  Tuesday  thereof  (in  1896,  however,  at  the 
convenience  of  the  Common  Council,  to  hold  his  office  until  May 
i,  1897),  who  shall  be  sworn  to  a  faithful  discharge  of  his  duty, 
and  who  shall  give  bond,  with  sufficient  sureties  in  the  sum  of 
three  thousand  dollars,  and  shall  receive  a  salary  at  the  rate  of 
twelve  hundred  dollars  per  annum,  and  $200.00  per  annum  for  the 
use  of  his  team.  Said  $200.00  to  be  taken  from  the  Appropriation 
for  Streets  and  payable  quarterly. 

SEC.  5.  Duties  of  Street  Commissioner.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of 
the  Street  Commissioner  to  execute  and  supervise  the  execution  of 
all  orders  and  directions  of  the  Common  Council  relative  to  the 
construction,  completion,  alteration  or  repair  of  all  streets,  high- 
ways, sidewalks,  gutters,  crosswalks,  etc.,  in  said  city  when  not 
otherwise  expressly  ordered  to  be  done  by  other  officers  or  per- 
sons ;  to  keep  all  public  places  and  thoroughfares  free"  from  nuis- 
ances, and  from  danger  to  persons  and  property,  by  causing  the 
immediate  repair  of  all  defects,  and  the  prompt  removal  of  all  ob- 
structions, encroachments,  encumbrances,  and  filth  therein,  and  by 
reporting  for  prosecution  all  violations  of  city  ordinances  relating 


70  CHAPTER   XXI. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

thereto,  to  provide  for  the  cleaning  of  all  catch  basins  and  receivers, 
to  prescribe  the  terms  and  manner  of  excavating  streets  and  high- 
ways, also  the  manner  of  moving  buildings  through  the  public 
streets  and  highways  ;  to  keep  a  record  of  complaints,  and  faith- 
fully enter  therein  all  complaints  made  to  him  concerning  streets, 
sidewalks,  and  all  public  places,  and  the  breach  of  ordinances  and 
orders  relating  thereto  ;  to  conform  to  all  general  rules  and  special 
directions  of  the  Common  Council  and  the  street  committee  thereof 
relating  to  the  locality,  measurements,  and  materials  of  public 
work ;  to  keep  an  accurate  account  of  expenditures  in  his  depart- 
ment, which  account  shall  be  open  at  all  times  to  the  inspection  of 
any  member  of  the  Common  Council  ;  to  make  a  written  report  to 
the  Common  Council  at  its  first  meeting  in  April  of  each  year  of 
the  work  and  expenditures  of  the  year  ending  with  the  March  3ist 
next  previous  ;  also  to  impart  at  any  time  any  and  all  information 
in  his  power  which  the  Common  Council  or  the  street  committee 
thereof  may  call  for  concerning  his  official  action  or  the  condition 
of  his  department ;  to  employ  and  procure  such  labor  and  sundry 
material  as  the  discharge  of  his  duties  and  the  authorized  work  of 
his  department  may  require  ;  and  to  make  provisional  contracts, 
subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Common  Council  for  such  public 
works  connected  with  highway,  streets,  crosswalks,  sidewalks,  gut- 
ters, etc.,  as  ought  in  his  judgment  to  be  done  by  contract.  He 
shall  not,  however,  be  directly  or  indirectly,  pecuniarily  interested 
in  furnishing  any  supplies  or  materials,  teams  or  labor  to  the  city. 
Nor  shall  he  alter  the  grade  of  any  street,  highway  or  sidewalk 
already  established,  except  by  order  of  the  Common  Council. 

SEC.  6.  Property  Owners  to  Connect  With  Sewers,  etc.  In  case 
a  street  is  to  be  paved  with  macadam,  asphalt,  or  block  stone,  or 
to  be  repaired  in  a  general  way  with  any  substance  except  earth, 
all  abutting  property  owners  shall  be  duly  warned  thereof  by  a  no- 
tice by  mail  by  the  Street  Commissioner,  and  also  by  notice  pub- 
lished in  a  daily  paper  printed  in  said  city,  twice,  not  less  than 
two  weeks  before  the  said  repairs  are  commenced,  and  thereupon 


CHAPTER   XXI.  71 

STREETS. 

every  such  owner  shall  connect  such  premises  with  the  main  lines 
of  sewer,  water  and  gas  by  service  pipes  from  said  mains  in  such 
street  to  the  inside  of  the  curb  or  paving  line  of  such  street,  if  not 
already  connected.  Upon  failure  so  to  do,  the  same  shall  be  done 
by  direction  of  the  Street  Commissioner,  and  the  expense  thereof 
be  borne  by  such  property  owner  and  the  same  be  and  remain 
paid  in  full  with  interest  a  lien  upon  said  premises  and  property  to 
be  enforced  and  collected  as  other  city  liens.  It  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  Street  Commissioner  to  cause  a  certificate  of  such  lien  to  be 
recorded  within  sixty  days  after  the  completion  of  such  work,  un- 
less previously  paid. 

SEC.  7.  Pay  Roll  of  Street  Department.  It  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  Street  Commissioner  on  or  before  Saturday  of  each  week  to 
make  out  a  pay  roll  on  which  shall  be  entered  the  name  of  every 
workman,  the  number  of  hours  of  work  performed  by  each  for  the 
preceding  week,  and  the  place  where  such  work  was  done,  includ- 
ing teams,  if  any,  price  per  hour,  and  amount.  And  when  such 
pay  roll  shall  have  been  approved  by  the  Mayor  an  order  shall  be 
drawn  by  the  Auditor  for  the  full  amount  of  the  same,  and  the 
Auditor  shall  deliver  the  same  to  the  City  Clerk,  who  shall  draw 
the  money  on  said  order,  and  pay  the  workmen  on  or  before  Sat- 
urday of  each  week,  taking  a  receipt  for  the  same  from  each 
workman. 

SEC.  8.  Excavating  or  Obstructing  Streets ;  Bond.  Every  person 
who  shall,  without  the  consent  of  the  Street  Commissioner,  or  of  the 
Common  Council,  dig  up  or  excavate  any  portion  of  the  streets, 
highways,  sidewalks,  or  gutters  of  said  city,  or  shall  place  thereon 
any  earth,  stones,  rubbish,  or  obstructions  to  the  public  use  of 
travel,  or  shall  aid,  assist,  or  abet  in  any  of  said  acts  shall  be  guilty 
of  a  misdemeanor  and  shall  for  each  offence  pay  a  penalty  of  ten 
dollars.  The  consent  of  the  Street  Commissioner  or  of  the  Common 
Council  to  each  obstruction  or  excavation  as  aforesaid,  shall  not 
be  given  until  a  bond  satisfactory  to  them  has  been  given,  securing 
the  city  against  any  claim  for  damages  from  accidents  caused  by 
said  excavations  or  obstructions. 


72  CHAPTER   XXI. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

SEC.  9.  Connecting  Property  With  Pipes;  Penalty.  Every  per- 
son who  shall  connect  his  property  with  sewer,  water,  or  gas  in  a 
street  made  of  any  substance  but  earth,  or  repair  any  such  existing 
connection,  shall  first  secure  the  written  consent  of  the  Street 
Commissioner.  After  such  consent  has  been  given  the  Street 
Commissioner  shall  supervise  and  direct  such  work  in  such  street. 
All  expenses  incurred  on  the  part  of  the  city  on  account  of  such 
supervision  shall  be  paid  by  the  party  at  whose  request  such  per- 
mit was  issued.  Any  person  violating  this  section  shall  be  guilty 
of  a  misdemeanor,  and  shall  be  fined  ten  dollars  for  each  offence. 

SEC.  10.  Erection  and  Maintenance  of  Signs.  No  sign  shall  be 
erected  or  maintained  over  the  sidewalk  or  attached  to  any  pole  in 
or  upon  any  portion  of  a  street  of  said  city. 

SEC.  it.  Of  Posts.  No  pole  or  post  except  such  as  may  be 
lawfully  erected  for  the  support  of  the  trolley  wires  used  by  the 
electric  railway  companies,  and  hitching  posts  of  stone  or  iron, 
shall  be  placed,  erected  or  maintained  upon  or  near  any  curb 
within  the  district  of  said  city  where  subways  are  located. 

SEC.  12.  Penalty.  Any  person  offending  against  any  of  the 
provisions  of  this  ordinance  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty  of  ten 
dollars  for  each  offence,  and  the  maintenance  of  any  sign,  pole  or 
post  against  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance  for  each  period  of  ten 
days  after  notice  from  the  Street  Commissioner  to  remove  the 
same,  shall  be  a  separate  offence. 

SEC.  13.  Inconsistent  Ordinances.  All  ordinances  and  parts  of 
ordinances  inconsistent  herewith  are  hereby  repealed. 

SEC.  14.  Failure  to  Fill  Up  Openings  in  Streets.  Every  per- 
son who  after  having  been  notified  by  the  Street  Commissioner  to 
fill  up  any  excavation  or  opening  in  any  of  the  highways,  streets, 
sidewalks,  or  gutters  of  said  city,  made,  or  procured  to  be  made 
by  him,  or  to  remove  therefrom  any  obstructions,  rubbish,  earth, 
or  stones  placed  thereon  by  him,  or  by  his  procurement,  shall 
neglect  or  refuse  so  to  do  within  the  time  limited  in  such  notice, 
shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  shall  pay  for  each  offence  a 


CHAPTER   XXI.  73 

STREETS. 

penalty  of  ten  dollars  ;  and  such  neglect  or  refusal  for  each  twenty- 
four  hours  after  the  expiration  of  the  time  limited  in  such  notice 
shall  be  deemed  a  separate  and  distinct  offence. 

SEC.  15.  Injuring  Streets  by  Water;  Liquid  Garbage ;  Penalty. 
No  person  shall  flush  any  hydrant  or  fill  any  catch  basin  to  the  det- 
riment of  the  macadamized  streets.  No  person  in  charge  of  any 
night  lunch  wagon,  or  store  on  any  street,  shall  pour  or  allow  to 
be  poured  any  liquid  garbage  on  the  street  or  sidewalks  of  the  city. 
Every  person  who  shall  violate  this  section  shall  be  guilty  of  a 
misdemeanor  and  shall  be  fined  ten  dollars  for  each  offence. 

SEC.  1 6.  Snow  and  Ice  on  Sidewalks  ;  Penalties.  The  owner  or 
occupant  of  any  land  or  building  fronting  on  any  street  or  public 
place  in  said  city,  where  there  is  a  sidewalk  either  of  stone  or  cin- 
ders, shall  within  six  hours  of  daylight  immediately  following  the  ces- 
sation of  any  fall  of  snow,  ice  or  sleet,  or  accumulation  of  ice  thereon, 
cause  the  same  to  be  removed  from  such  sidewalk,  and  if  the  same 
cannot  be  wholly  removed,  shall  sprinkle  therepn  sand  or  other 
proper  substance,  so  that  the  passing  upon  said  sidewalk  shall  not 
be  obstructed,  dangerous,  or  inconvenient ;  and  upon  failure  to  do 
so  within  the  time  limited  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and 
shall  be  fined  not  less  than  one  dollar  nor  more  than  ten  dollars 
for  each  offence.  After  the  expiration  of  the  time  limited  as  afore- 
said, for  removing  such  snow,  ice  or  sleet,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of 
the  Street  Commissioner  to  cause  the  same  to  be  removed  and  the 
expense  thereof  shall  be  and  continue  to  be  a  lien  and  real  encum- 
brance in  favor  of  said  city,  and  upon  such  land  or  buildings  ; 
and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Street  Commissioner  to  cause  a  cer- 
tificate of  lien  thereof  to  be  recorded  within  sixty  days  thereafter, 
unless  such  expense  shall  have  been  previously  paid.  The  pro- 
visions of  this  section  shall  also  apply  to  the  falling  of  snow  from 
any  building. 

SEC.  17.  Opening  of  Streets;  Penalty.  No  street,  or  public  thor- 
oughfare, or  part  of  any  street  or  thoroughfare,  shall  be  opened  to  the 
public  use  within  the  limits  of  said  city  except  by  the  direction  of, 


74  CHAPTER   XXI. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

or  consent  of  the  Common  Council  first  obtained,  and  if  any  per- 
son or  corporation  shall  lay  out  or  open  any  street,  or  public  thor- 
oughfare, or  part  of  any  street  or  public  thoroughfare,  within 
the  limits  of  said  city,  without  such  consent  or  direction,  such 
person  or  corporation  so  offending  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  pen- 
alty of  fifty  dollars  for  each  period  of  ten  days  during  which 
such  street  or  part  of  street,  public  thoroughfare  or  part  of 
public  thoroughfare,  shall  remain  open  and  accessible  to  the  pub- 
lic, and  the  original  opening  aforesaid,  and  each  continuance  of 
ten  days,  as  aforesaid,  shall  constitute  a  separate  and  distinct 
offence.  No  street  shall  be  accepted  until  properly  graded  to  the 
full  satisfaction  of  the  Committee  on  Streets. 

And  no  grade  of  any  street,  highway  or  sidewalk  already  estab- 
lished or  to  be  established  hereafter  shall  be  altered  by  any  street 
commissioner  or  other  person  except  by  the  direct  orders  of  the 
Common  Council. 

SEC.  1 8.  Lamps  at  Obstructions  in  Streets;  Penalty.  Whenever 
any  lumber,  brick,  mortar  or  other  building  material  shall  necessarily 
be  left  in  any  street  by  consent  of  the  Common  Council,  the  amount 
of  room  to  be  so  used  may  be  restricted  to  the  actual  need  of  the 
parties  having  such  consent  by  the  Street  Committee  or  Street 
Commissioner.  Each  and  every  night  from  dark  to  daylight  the 
person  having  this  consent  must  keep  a  well  lighted  lamp  or  lantern 
at  each  end  of  the  obstruction,  and  every  person  offending  against 
this  provision  of  this  ordinance  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty  of 
ten  dollars  for  each  offence. 

SEC.  19.  Inconsistent  Ordinances  Repealed.  All  ordinances  and 
parts  of  ordinances  heretofore  existing  inconsistent  with  this  ordi- 
nance on  streets,  and  all  previous  ordinances  and  parts  thereof 
that  are  substantially  of  the  same  tenor  and  embrace  the  same  sub- 
ject matter  as  this  ordinance,  are  hereby  repealed. 

SEC.  20.  Neglect  to  Make  or  Pave  Sidewalk  or  Gutter.  When- 
ever the  owner  of  any  land  fronting  upon  any  street  or  highway  in 
this  city  shall  neglect  to  make  or  pave  any  sidewalk  or  gutter  within 


CHAPTER  XXI.  75 

STREETS. 

the  time  and  in  the  manner  ordered  by  the  Common  Council,  or 
shall  neglect  or  refuse  to  keep  his  sidewalk  in  good  repair,  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  the  Street  Commissioner  to  make  or  repair  the  same, 
and  the  cost  of  making  or  repairing,  and  interest  thereon,  shall  be 
a  lien  or  real  incumbrance  upon  the  land  and  buildings  in  refer- 
ence to  which  such  sums  shall  have  been  expended  to  be  enforced 
in  like  manner  as  other  city  liens. 

SEC.  21.  Curb  Required.  Whenever  the  Common  Council 
shall  order  a  crosswalk  on  any  street  the  Street  Commissioner  shall 
not  carry  out  the  order  until  the  property  owners  owning  property 
at  such  place  have  put  in  a  curb,  cut  at  a  radius  approved  by  the 
city  surveyor,  and  extended  ten  (10)  feet  each  way  from  said  cor- 
ner (provided  it  be  at  the  junction  of  two  streets),  and  have  laid 
their  flag  walk  up  to  this  curb. 

SEC.  22.  Hearing  Required.  Whenever  any  owners  or  proprie- 
tors of  any  land  abutting  upon  any  street  or  portion  thereof  shall 
petition  the  Common  Council  that  such  street  or  portion  of  such 
street  be  paved  or  repaved,  with  paving  or  other  macadam  in  gen- 
eral use,  specifying  in  such  petition  the  street  or  portion  of  such 
street  as  is  desired  to  be  paved  or  repaved,  and  specifying  the 
kind  of  material  it  is  desired  shall  be  used  in  such  paving  or  re- 
paving,  the  Common  Council' shall  cause  a  notice  signed  by  the 
Mayor  or  City  Clerk  describing  in  general  terms  the  proposed  im- 
provement, and  specifying  a  time  and  place  when  and  where  all 
persons  interested  may  appear  and  be  heard  by  the  Common  Coun- 
cil relative  thereto,  which  notice  shall  be  published  not  less  than 
two  times  in  some  daily  newspaper  published  in  said  city,  the  last 
publication  to  be  not  more  than  three  days  before  said  day  of 
hearing. 

At  the  time  and  place  mentioned  in  said  notice,  and  at  any  ad- 
journment thereof,  said  Common  Council  shall  hear  all  persons 
interested,  who  may  appear  and  desire  to  be  heard. 


76  CHAPTER   XXI. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

SEC.  23.  When  Materials  Other  Than  Macadam  Used.  If  after 
such  hearing,  said  Common  Council  shall  resolve  to  pave  or  repave 
such  street  or  portion  of  such  street,  including  that  portion  con- 
tiguous to  lateral  or  intersecting  streets,  with  materials  other  than 
macadam  commonly  in  use,  it  shall  cause  a  map  or  maps  to  be 
prepared  showing  the  street  or  portion  of  such  street  as  it  shall  or- 
der paved  or  repaved  with  the  boundaries  of  properties  of  all 
adjoining  proprietors  abutting  on  the  street  or  portion  of  the  street 
proposed  to  be  paved  or  repaved,  and  shall  cause  to  be  prepared 
plans  and  specifications  showing  the  kind  and  quality  of  paving 
and  the  manner  of  making  and  applying  the  same,  and  upon  the 
approval  and  adoption  of  such  vote,  maps,  plans  and  specification, 
shall  cause  said  improvement  to  be  made.  Immediately  upon  the 
completion  of  said  paving  or  repaving,  the  authority  under  whose 
supervision  and  direction  such  paving  shall  have  been  made,  shall 
return  said  maps,  plans  and  specifications  to  the  Common  Council, 
together  with  a  report  of  the  cost  of  such  paving  or  repaving,  and 
an  estimate  of  the  part  of  the  cost  of  such  work  which  by  law  or 
contract  any  company  owning  or  operating  a  street  railway  in  said 
street  or  portion  of  such  street  so  paved  or  repaved  is  liable  to  pay. 

SEC.  24.  Jtefiort  to  be  Referred.  Upon  receipt  of  such  report 
with  accompanying  maps,  plans  and  specifications  by  the  Common 
Council  the  same  shall  be  referred  to  the  board  of  Street  Com- 
missioners. 

SEC.  25.  Assessment  of  Benefits  and  Damages.  Said  board  of 
Street  Commissioners  shall  thereupon  proceed  in  the  manner  pre- 
scribed by  section  50  of  the  charter  of  said  city  to  make  an  assess- 
ment of  benefits  and  damages  for  the  cost  of  paving  or  repaving 
said  street  or  portion  of  said  street  so  paved  or  repaved,  not  in- 
cluding such  portion  of  said  cost  as  is  borne  by  any  street  railway 
company,  upon  the  owners  of  the  land  adjoining  said  street  or  por- 
tion of  said  street  so  paved  or  repaved. 

SEC.  26.  Proportion  Borne  by  Property  Owners.  Not  more 
than  two-thirds  of  the  cost  of  such  paving  or  repaving,  not  includ- 


CHAPTER   XXII.  77 

STREET    IMPROVEMENT    FUND. 

ing  therein  such  portion  of  said  costs  as  is  provided  by  law  shall 
be  borne  by  any  street  railway  company  owning  or  operating  a 
street  railway  in  said  street  or  portion  of  said  street  paved  or  re- 
paved,  shall  be  assessed  upon  the  proprietors  of  land  adjoining 
said  street  paved  or  repaved,  and  the  portion  not  so  assessed  shall 
be  assessed  upon  the  city  at  large. 


CHAPTER  XXII. 

STREET    IMPROVEMENT  FUND. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  New 
Britain  : 

SECTION  i.  Street  Improvement  Fund.  That  the  amount  which 
was  appropriated  by  the  city  at  its  annual  meeting  in  1883,  for  the 
purpose  of  creating  a  fund  to  defray  the  expenses  of  laying  side- 
walks, curbs  and  gutters,  and  repairing  the  same,  when  the  owners 
or  occupiers  of  the  land  and  buildings  fronting  on  such  sidewalks 
and  gutters  shall  have  neglected  or  refused  to  comply  with  the  or- 
der of  the  Common  Council  to  lay  such  sidewalks,  curbs  and  gut- 
ters, or  to  repair  the  same,  and  all  sums  of  money  now  due  to  said 
city  for  such  work,  and  such  further  sums  as  the  city  shall  here- 
after appropriate  for  such  purpose,  shall  be  and  remain  a  perma- 
nent fund,  to  be  known  as  "  the  street  improvement  fund." 

SEC.  2.  Cost  of  Walks,  etc.  All  bills  for  laying  sidewalks, 
curbs  and  gutters  and  repairing  the  same,  which  shall  be  contracted 
by  the  city  by  reason  of  the  owners  or  occupiers  of  the  land  and 
buildings  fronting  on  such  sidewalks  and  gutters,  neglecting  or  re- 
fusing to  comply  with  the  order  of  the  Common  Council  in  relation 
thereto,  shall  be  paid  from  said  fund. 


78  CHAPTER  xxm. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

SEC.  3.  Receipts.  All  sums  now  due,  and  all  sums  which  may 
hereafter  become  due  to  the  city  for  said  work,  shall,  when  col- 
lected, be  deposited  to  the  credit  of  said  fund. 

SEC.  4.  Benefits  and  Damages.  Whenever  an  assessment  of 
benefits  and  damages  shall  be  made  on  account  of  the  laying  out, 
alteration,  construction,  extension,  enlargement,  discontinuance  or 
exchange  of  any  street,  highway,  public  walk  or  avenue  in  said 
city,  the  benefits  so  assessed,  when  collected,  shall  be  deposited  to 
the  credit  of  said  fund,  and  the  damages  so  assessed  shall  be  paid 
from  said  fund,  and  when  the  benefits  so  collected  shall  exceed  the 
damages  paid,  the  excess  of  such  benefits  shall  be  transferred  to 
the  street  department  to  pay  for  the  working  of  said  street,  high- 
way, public  walk  or  avenue,  and  when  the  damages  awarded  shall 
exceed  the  benefits,  the  excess  of  damages  so  awarded  shall  be 
repaid  to  said  fund  from  the  street  department  appropriation. 

SEC.  5.  Treasurer  to  Report.  The  treasurer  shall  present  a 
statement  of  the  receipts,  disbursements  and  balance  of  said  fund 
with  his  annual  report  to  the  Common  Council. 


CHAPTER  XXIII. 

STREET  LIGHTING. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  New 
Britain  : 

SECTION  i.  Public  Street  Lamps.  The  public  street  lamps  of 
the  city  shall  be  under  the  care  and  control  of  the  Committee  on 
Street  Lighting,  subject  to  the  orders  and  instructions  of  the  Com- 
mon Council.  No  public  street  lamp  shall  be  erected,  changed, 
altered,  or  removed  without  the  consent  of  the  Common  Council. 


CHAPTER  XXIII.  79 

STREET  LIGHTING. 

SEC.  2.  Map  of  Street  Lights  and  Record.  The  Committee  on 
Street  Lighting  shall  cause  to  be  made  a  map  of  the  city  showing 
thereon  the  location  of  each  public  street  lamp  and  denoting  on 
said  map  on  the  point  where  each  and  evefy  lamp  is  located  a 
number,  which  number  shall  be  duplicated  in  stencil  on  the  pole 
supporting  the  said  lamp  as  represented  on  the  map.  The  num- 
bers herein  denned  shall  each  be  preceded  by  the  number  of  the 
ward  in  which  such  lamp  is  located.  Said  committee  shall  also 
keep  a  book  in  which  shall  be  noted  the  number  and  location  of 
each  and  every  lamp  within  the  city  together  with  the  information 
as  to  the  date  such  lamp  or  lamps  was  ordered  erected  by  the  Com- 
mon Council,  and  all  changes,  alterations,  or  removals  of  any  and 
all  lamps.  Said  book  shall  be  and  remain  in  the  custody  of  the 
City.  Clerk  when  not  in  use  by  the  committee,  and  shall  be  deemed 
a  part  of  the  city  records. 

SEC.  3.  Lamps  Designated.  Whenever  the  Committee  on  Street 
Lighting  shall  report  to  the  Common  Council  any  matter  in  rela- 
tion to  the  erection,  change,  alteration  or  removal  of  any  street 
lamp,  the  committee  shall  incorporate  in  said  report  the  number 
and  location  of  the  lamps  to  which  their  report  refers. 

SEC.  4.  Penalty  for  Injuring  Street  Lighting  Apparatus.  Any 
person  who  shall  willfully  and  maliciously  cut,  break,  injure,  de- 
stroy or  deface  any  gas  light,  lamp,  lantern,  post,  or  frame,  erected 
or  maintained  by  the  Common  Council  for  the  purpose  of  lighting 
the  streets  of  said  city,  or  shall  light  or  extinguish  any  public  gas 
lamp  or  other  light  without  proper  authority,  or  in  any  way  will- 
fully or  maliciously  interfere  with  the  proper  use  or  management 
of  the  public  lights  in  said  city,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty  of 
fifteen  dollars  for  each  offence. 


80  CHAPTER   XXIV. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 


CHAPTER  XXIV. 

SUPPLIES. 
Be  it  Ordained  by  (he  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  New  Britain: 

SECTION  i.  Office  Supplies.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  all  officers 
and  departments  of  the  City.,  whose  office  supplies  are  paid  for 
from  the  general  funds  of  the  City,  the  bills  for  which  are  to  pass 
through  the  hands  of  the  claims  committee  of  the  Common  Coun- 
cil  to  furnish  the  City  Clerk  with  a  detailed  statement  of  the  sup- 
plies needed  by  them  from  time  to  time.  The  clerk  shall  submit 
said  statement  to  the  committee  on  supplies  for  their  approval, 'and 
if  approved  by  said  committee,  the  clerk  shall  procure  the  said 
supplies  to  the  best  advantage  of  the  City,  and  deliver  the  same  to 
the  officers  or  departments  to  which  the  same  belongs. 

SEC.  2.  Order  Blank.  In  ordering  the  said  supplies  the  clerk 
shall  have  an  order  blank  on  which  he  shall  clearly  state  a  list  of 
the  supplies  needed  properly  addressed  to  the  party  or  parties  who 
are  to  furnish  said  supplies.  Said  party  or  parties,  in  rendering 
the  bills  for  the  said  supplies  furnished  by  them,  shall  return  said 
order  attached  to  the  bill  or  bills  rendered,  or  the  same  will  not  be 
approved  by  the  claims  committee. 

SEC.  3.  Supplies  Other  Than  Office  Supplies.  All  officers  and 
Departments  having  power  to  purchase  supplies  other  than  office 
supplies  shall  supply  themselves  with  order  blanks  to  be  used  by 
them  for  their  respective  offices  and  departments,  after  the  same 
manner  as  stated  above. 

SEC.  4,  When  Bills  Not  Binding.  Any  bill  contracted  except 
as  above  provided,  shall  not  be  legal  or  binding  on  the  City  of 
New  Britain. 


CHAPTER    XXV.  81 

TAXES. 

CHAPTER  XXV. 

TAXES. 

Be  it  ordained  by.  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  oj  New  Britain  : 

SECTION  i.  Tax.  Whenever  said  city  shall  lay  a  tax,  the  same 
shall  be  levied  upon  the  polls  and  ratable  estate  liable  to  taxation 
therein,  as  set  and  entered  in  the  assessment  list  of  the  town  of 
New  Britain  last  made  and  completed  unless  otherwise  specified  in 
the  vote  laying  said  tax. 

SEC.  z.  City  Assessment  List ;  Finance  Committee  to  Act  as  Board 
of  Relief ;  Duty  of  Rate-bill  Maker.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  finance 
committee  of  the  Common  Council,  when  any  city  tax  shall  be  laid, 
to  cause  to  be  prepared  by  some  proper  person  to  be  called  the  city 
rate-bill  maker,  a  full  and  complete  city  assessment  list,  in  preparing 
which  list  no  change  shall  be  made  from  the  valuations  in  said  town 
list,  provided,  however,  that  when  it  shall  appear  that  any  real  estate, 
assessed  in  said  town  list  as  one  parcel,  is  situated  partly  within 
and  partly  without  said  city,  or  that  any  real  estate  situated  wholly 
within  said  city  has  been  omitted  from  said  town  list,  or  that  any 
real  estate  has  changed  ownership  since  said  town  list  was  made, 
then  in  either  of  said  cases,  the  finance  committee  of  the  Common 
Council  shall  apply  to  one  or  more  of  the  town  assessors  for  the 
time  being,  who  shall  assess  the  value  of  such  real  estate,  and  the 
same  shall  be  placed  in  the  city  assessment  list  at  the  valuation  so 
established,  and  the  value  as  so  fixed  of  any  transferred  real  estate 
shall  be  deducted  from  the  list  of  the  person  in  whose  name  it 
stood  on  said  town  assessment  list.  The  said  city  list  being  so 
prepared,  shall  be  deposited  with  the  City  Clerk,  and,  within 
twenty  days  thereafter,  the  finance  committee  shall  meet  at  some 
convenient  place  in  said  city,  having  given  notice  of  the  time  and 
place  of  such  meeting  in  a  newspaper  in  said  city  at  least  ten  days 
before  holding  the  same,  to  hear  and  act  upon  the  complaints  of 


82  CHAPTER    XXV. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

all  persons  or  corporations  claiming  to  be  aggrieved  by  such 
amendatory  action  of  said  assessors  or  their  failure  to  amend  said 
list  on  application  as  aforesaid,  and  for  that  purpose  shall  have 
the  powers  of  town  boards  of  relief ;  and  said  city  assessment  be- 
ing so  perfected  by  the  finance  committee  and  certified  by  them, 
shall  be  lodged  with  the  City  Clerk,  and  shall  be  the  basis  of  taxa- 
tion by  said  city  until  the  next  town  assessment  shall  have  been 
made  and  completed.  It  shall  also  be  the  duty  of  said  rate-bill 
maker  to  make  out  and  certify  a  rate-bill  setting  forth  the  propor- 
tion which  each  taxable  person  or  corporation  shall  pay  according 
to  law. 

SEC.  3.  Rate-bill  Make?  to  be  Sworn;  Compensation  The  city 
rate-bill  maker  shall  be  sworn  to  faithfully  discharge  the  duties  of 
his  office,  and  said  rate-bill  maker  and  assessors  shall  receive  such 
reasonable  compensation  as  the  Common  Council  shall  allow. 

SEC.  4.  Warrant  for  Collection  of  Taxes  When  said  rate  bill 
shall  have  been  made  out,  the  Mayor  of  said  city  or  one  of  the 
aldermen  thereof,  shall  issue  his  warrant  for  the  collection  of  the 
same,  directed  to  the  collector,  commanding  and  empowering  him 
to  collect  and  pay  the  same  to  the  City  Treasurer  within  a  time 
limited  therein,  which  shall  not  be  less  than  three  months  from  the 
date  of  such  warrant. 

SEC.  5.  Auditor  to  Report  Unpaid  Taxes.  It  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  City  Auditor,  in  auditing  the  accounts  of  the  City  Collector, 
to  ascertain  the  amount  of  taxes  uncollected  and  due  the  city  on 
each  and  every  city  rate-bill,  and  also  the  amounts  due  the  city  on 
all  warrants  for  the  collection  of  assessments  on  account  of  public 
improvements  of  all  kinds,  and  to  report  the  same  to  the  Common 
Council. 

SEC.  6.  Abatements.  The  Finance  Committee  shall  have  power, 
subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Common  Council,  to  abate  the  taxes 
of  such  persons  in  said  city  as  are  poor  and  unable  to  pay  the 
same,  and  of  such  others  as  it  may,  in  their  judgment,  seem  proper 
to  abate, 


CHAPTER    XXV.  83 

TAXES. 

SEC.  7.  Tax  Collector  to  Report  Back  Taxes,  etc.  It  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  collector  to  report  to  the  corporation  counsel  on 
the  first  Monday  of  September,  1899,  and  the  first  Monday  of  Sep- 
tember of  each  year  thereafter,  all  taxes  upon,  property,  all  sewer 
and  street  improvement  assessments,  and  all  poll  taxes  that  have 
not  been  abated  according  to  law,  and  which  have  been  due  and 
unpaid  for  a  period  of  two  years  ;  also  all  assessments  upon  prop- 
erty which  have  been  due  and  unpaid  for  a  period  of  three  years, 
and  it  shall.be  the  duty  of  the  corporation  counsel  to  proceed 
forthwith  to  take  all  legal  steps  necessary  to  enforce  the  payment 
of  said  taxes  and  assessments.  In  special  cases  in  which  it  is 
found  that  the  above  provision  works  a  hardship,  the  period  of 
assessments  may  be  extended  not  exceeding  two  years  by  a  three 
fourths  vote  of  the  Common  Council,  on  appeal  of  the  aggrieved 
debtor,  and  the  collector  directed  by  the  said  Common  Council  to 
omit  from  his  annual  report  to  the  corporation  counsel  the  names 
of  such  parties  until  the  expiration  of  the  additional  two  years 
granted  by  vote  of  said  Common  Council. 

SEC.  8.  Delinquent  Tax  Payers,  Etc.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of 
the  collector  to  report  to  the  Common  Council  on  the  first  Monday 
of  October,  1899,  and  on  the  first  Monday  of  each  quarter  there- 
after, the  names  and  addresses  of  all  persons  liable  to  pay  taxes 
and  assessments  to  said  city,  and  who  have  neglected  to  pay  the 
same  for  one  year  after  the  same  became  payable,  and  he  shall 
likewise  report  to  the  Common  Council  the  names  and  addresses 
of  all  persons  who  shall  have  neglected  to  pay  their  sewer  or  street 
improvement  assessments  for  a  period  of  sixty  days  after  the  same 
became  due  and  payable. 

SEC.  9.  Collector  to  Pay  Treasurer.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
City  Collector  to  pay  to  the  City  Treasurer  all  moneys  received 
by  him,  semi-monthly,  or  as  soon  as,  and  whenever  the  amount 
collected  shall  exceed  the  sum  of  one  thousand  dollars  ($1,000.00). 

No  provision  of  Section  4  of  Chapter  XXV.  shall  be  construed 
as  conflicting  with  this  section. 


84  CHAPTER  XXVI. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

CHAPTER  XXVI. 

TRADE. 
Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  New  Britain : 

SECTION  i.  Licenses.  No  person  except  those  exempt  by  stat- 
utes of  the  State  shall  vend  upon  the  public  streets  of  said  city,  any 
groceries,  provisions,  fruits,  goods,  wares  or  other  merchandise  at 
any  private  or  public  sale  or  auction,  or  shall  peddle  or  solicit 
sales  of  said  articles  of  merchandise  from  house  to  house  within 
said  city,  unless  such  person  shall  have  a  license  from  the  Com- 
mon Council  or  the  license  committee  thereof,  and  the  following 
sums  of  money  shall  hereafter  be  paid  as  such  license  fees  by  all 
persons  receiving  licenses  from  the  license  committee  or  the  Com- 
mon Council : 

For  vegetable  and  fruit  peddlers,  $2.00  per  month  or  fraction 
thereof. 

For  clothing  dealers  with  teams,  $2.00  per  month  or  fraction 
thereof. 

For  dry  goods  dealers  with  teams,  $2.00  per  month  or  fraction 
thereof. 

For  cigar  and  tobacco  dealers  with  teams,  $2.00  per  month  or 
fraction  thereof. 

For  boot  and  shoe  dealers  with  teams,  $2.00  per  month  or  frac- 
tion thereof. 

For  pack  peddlers,  $2.00  per  month  or  fraction  thereof. 

For  tinware  peddlers  with  teams,  $2.00  per  month  or  fraction 
thereof. 

For  tinware  peddlers  with  push  carts,  $1.00  per  month  or  frac- 
tion thereof. 

Provided  that  this  section  shall  not  extend  to  sales,  by  farmers 
or  gardeners,  of  the  products  of  their  farms  and  gardens,  or  to  fish 
venders. 


CHAPTER  XXVI.  85 

TRADE. 

Such  peddlers  and  street  venders,  either  with  or  without  teams, 
shall  be  licensed  to  do  business  only  between  the  hours  of  seven 
o'clock  a.m.,  and  four  o'clock  p.m.  Each  peddler  or  vender  shall 
procure  a  badge,  with  a  number  plainly  engraved  or  fastened 
thereon,  from  the  chief  of  police,  for  which  he  shall  deposit  with 
said  chief  of  police  the  sum  of  $2.00  as  security  therefor,  and 
shall  wear  such  badge  in  a  conspicuous  place. 

Any  person  offending  against  any  provision  in  this  section  shall 
forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty  of  $10.00  for  each  offence. 

SEC.  2.  Additional  Subjects.  The  following  sums  of  money 
shall  hereafter  be  paid  as  license  fees  by  all  persons  receiving  li- 
censes from  the  license  committee  or  the  Common  Council  for  the 
following  subjects  : 

Opera  House,  per  year,  $50.00. 

Circus,  large,  per  day,  $50.00. 

Circus,  small,  per  day,  $25.00. 

Circus,  dime,  per  day,  $10.00. 

Circus,  dime,  each  additional  day,  $5. 

Merry-go-round,  per  day,  $2.00. 

Merry-go-round  each  additional  day,  $1.00. 

Street  fakirs,  per  day,  $2.00. 

Medicine  men,  per  day,  $6.00. 

Wrestling  matches,  per  day,  $2.00. 

Hacks  and  busses,  per  horse,  per  year,  $1.00. 

Keeping  or  selling  gun  powder,  per  year,  $5.00. 

Rent  of  stores,  museums,  per  day,  $2.00. 

Each  additional  day,  $1.00. 

Entertainments  given  by  out  of  town  parties  in  other  than  opera 
houses,  churches,  etc.,  per  day,  $2.00. 

Auctioneers  per  year  or  fractional  part  thereof,  $20.00. 

SEC.  3.      Venders  Licensed  by  State.     No    license    shall    be   re- 
quired of  such  itinerant  venders  and  junk  dealers  as  are  required 


86  CHAPTER  XXVI. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

to  be  licensed  under  the  statutes  of  the  State  of  Connecticut, 
though  the  same  person  may  be  required  to  take  out  a  separate 
license  for  the  carrying  on  of  each  of  the  different  occupations 
above  specified. 

SEC.  4.  Collection  of  Rags,  Etc.  No  person  shall  engage  in  the 
business  of  collecting  rags,  paper,  glass,  cinders  or  other  waste 
matter  within  the  city  of  New  Britain,  or  go  about  in  the  streets, 
alleys  and  public  places  in  said  city,  for  the  purpose  of  collecting, 
purchasing  or  bartering  for  the  same,  without  first  having  obtained 
a  license  so  to  do  from  the  Chief  of  Police  of  said  city,  which  said 
licenses  may  contain  such  conditions  as  he  may  deem  expedient, 
and  be  revocable  at  the  pleasure  of  the  said  chief,  upon  notice, 
subject  to  an  appeal  to  the  license  committee.  The  fee  for  such 
license  shall  be  two  ($2.00)  dollars  per  annum,  and  no  person  so 
licensed  as  a  ragpicker  shall  pursue  his  said  business  between  the 
hours  of  six  in  the  evening  and  seven  in  the  morning.  Such  license 
shall  be  countersigned  by  the  City  Clerk,  and  a  record  made  by 
him  of  the  same.  The  Chief  of  Police  shall  provide  each  ragpicker 
with  a  badge  and  a  number  for  the  wagon. 

SEC.  5.  Keeping  of  Gunpowder.  No  person  shall  keep  or  have 
for  sale,  or  any  other  purpose,  in  any  house,  store,  or  other  build- 
ing within  the  limits  of  said  city,  more  than  one  pound  of  gun- 
powder, without  previous  license  of  the  Common  Council  or  the 
license  committee  thereof. 

SEC.  6-  Keeping  or  Selling  Gunpowder.  No  person  licensed 
to  keep  or  sell  gunpowder  pursuant  hereto,  shall  have  on  hand  at 
any  one  time  more  than  fifty  pounds  in  weight,  and  the  same  shall 
be  kept  in  a  chest  of  copper,  tin,  or  some  other  incombustible 
material,  marked  on  the  front  with  the  word  "gunpowder,"  which 
chest  shall  have  two  stout  handles  and  a  tight  lid  or  cover  with 
hinges,  and  no  person  shall  sell  any  gunpowder  except  between 
sunrise  and  sunset. 

SEC.  7.  Transportation  of  Gunpowder.  No  person  without  li- 
cense shall  transport  any  gunpowder  through  said  city  or  any  street 


CHAPTER  XXVI.  87 

TRADE. 

thereof,  #t  any  other  time  than  between  the  rising  and  setting  of 
the  sun,  not  in  quantities  of  more  than  one  hundred  pounds  at  any 
one  time,  in  any  one  vehicle,  and  only  in  accordance  with  the 
terms  of  the  permission,  which  shall  be  first  obtained  of  the 
Chief  Engineer  of  the  Fire  Department. 

SEC.  8.  Penalty  Any  person  offending  against  any  of  the  pro- 
visions of  the  three  preceding  sections  of  this  ordinance  shall  for- 
feit and  pay  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  twenty  nor  more  than  fifty 
dollars  for  each  offence,  and  a  like  penalty  for  every  day  that  such 
person  shall  have,  keep  or  possess  any  gunpowder  contrary  to  the 
provisions  of  said  sections. 

SEC.  9.  Nitro-glycerine  or  Dynamite.  No  person  without  li- 
cense shall  have,  keep,  or  possess,  or  bring  within  the  limits  of 
said  city  any  of  the  compounds  known  as  nitro-glycerine,  or  dyna- 
mite, and  any  person  so  offending,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty 
of  fifty  dollars,  and  a  like  penalty  for  every  day  that  such  person 
shall  have,  keep,  or  possess  any  of  said  compounds  within  said 
city. 

SEC.  10.  License  Committee  to  Fix  Fees.  The  License  Com- 
mittee of  the  Common  Council  shall  prescribe  fees  (subject  to  ap- 
peal, by  any  party  interested,  to  said  Council)  for  issuing  licenses 
for  any  of  the  purposes  aforesaid. 

SEC.  ii.  Sealer  of  Weights  and  Measures.  There  shall  be  ap- 
pointed annually  in  the  month  of  April  by  the  Common  Council  a 
Sealer  of  Weights  and  Measures,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  annually 
inspect,  prove  correct,  and  seal  all  measures,  scales,  steelyards 
and  weights  used  for  weighing  or  measuring  by  any  person  in  do- 
ing business  within  said  city  of  New  Britain.  All  such  measures, 
scales,  steelyards  and  weights  as  are  found  or  made  to  correspond 
and  agree  with  said  standards  shall  be  marked  or  sealed  with  the 
letters  N.  B.  S.  In  addition  to  said  annual  inspection  said  Sealer 
of  Weights  and  Measures  shall  when  requested  by  any  person,  try 
and  test  by  said  standards  the  measures,  scales,  steelyards  and 
weights  used  by  any  person  doing  business  within  said  city. 


88  CHAPTER  XXVI. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

SEC.  12.  Penalty.  Any  person  who  shall,  within  the  limits  of 
said  city,  use  any  weight  or  measure  to  ascertain  the  length,  weight 
or  quantity  of  any  article  by  him  sold,  which  weight  or  measure 
has  not  been  marked  or  sealed  by  said  Sealer  of  Weights  and 
Measures  in  the  manner  provided  in  the  eleventh  section  of  this 
ordinance,  or  who  shall  knowingly  or  with  intent  to  defraud,  sell 
any  article  as  or  for  a  greater  weight,  measure  or  quantity  than 
such  article  does  in  fact  weigh  or  measure  according  to  said  stand- 
ards, shall  forfeit  and  pay  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  two  nor  more 
than  twenty  dollars. 

SEC.  13.  Compensation  of  Sealer  of  Weights  and  Measures.  The 
owner  of  the  several  measures,  scales,  and  steelyards  and  weights 
shall  pay  said  Sealer  of  Weights  and  Measures  for  each  annual  in- 
spection made  as  required  by  section  eleventh  of  this  ordinance: — 
for  testing  each  set  of  weights,  twenty-five  cents  ;  set  of  measures 
from  gill  to  gallon,  twenty-five  cents  ;  each  yardstick,  five  cents  ; 
set  of  measures,  dry,  twenty-five  cents  ;  for  each  scale,  balance,  or 
basket,  the  sum  of  twenty-five  cents  each  ;  for  each  weight  or 
measure  less  than  a  set,  the  sum  of  five  cents  each.  When  an 
additional  inspection  shall  be  made  as  provided  in  section  eleven  of 
this  ordinance,  the  expense  o'f  such  inspection  shall  be  paid  by  the 
person  requesting  the  same,  unless  such  measures,  scales,  steel- 
yards and  weights  are  found  to  be  incorrect,  in  which  case  the 
expense  of  such  inspection  shall  be  paid  by  the  owner. 

SEC.  14.  To  Visit  All  Places.  The  Sealer  of  Weights  and 
Measures  shall  visit  from  time  to  time,  as  he  shall  deem  necessary, 
all  places  in  said  city  where  scales,  weights  or  measures  of  any 
kind  are  used  in  buying  or  selling  any  article  of  merchandise,  and 
inspect  such  scales,  weights  or  measures,  as  have  not  been  inspected 
within  one  year,  and  proceed  as  provided  in  section  eleventh. 

SEC.  15.  Inspection  of  Scales,  Etc.,  of  Peddlers.  It  shall  be 
the  duty  of  the  Sealer  of  Weights  and  Measures,  and  it  shall  be 
lawful  for  him  to  enter  any  store,  house,  or  any  other  building  or 
yard  in  said  city,  where  weights  and  measures  are  used  for  the 


CHAPTER  XXVI.  89 

TRADE. 

purpose  of  buying  or  selling  any  article,  at  any  reasonable  hour, 
to  inspect  any  scales,  weights  or  measures  contained  therein,  and 
it  shall  be  lawful  for  him  to  inspect  the  scales,  weights,  or  measures 
of  any  itinerant  merchant  or  peddler  of  fruits, 'vegetables,  or  other 
articles  of  merchandise  in  said  city. 

SEC.  1 6.  Weighing  of  Hay  and  Coal  When  Requested.  All 
persons,  their  agents  or  drivers,  selling  hay  or  coal  in  the  city  of 
New  Britain  shall,  whenever  requested  by  the  purchaser  of  such 
hay  or  coal,  give  to  him  the  weight  thereof,  and  if  such  purchaser 
request  it,  shall  cause  such  hay  or  coal  and  the  cart,  wagon  or 
other  vehicle  containing  the  same  to  be  forthwith  weighed  by  the 
Sealer  of  Weights  and  Measures  on  such  scales  as  said  Sealer  may 
select,  and  after  delivering  such  hay  or  coal  shall  forthwith  before 
taking  another  load  return  said  cart,  wagon  or  other  vehicle  to  the 
same  scales  and  cause  it  to  be  weighed  thereon.  Said  Sealer  shall 
then  give  such  purchaser  a  certificate  of  the  weight  of  such  hay  or 
coal,  and  if  the  weight  certified  to  by  said  Sealer  is  not  less  than 
the  weight  previously  given  by  such  seller,  agent  or  driver,  said 
purchaser  shall  pay  the  fees  of  said  Sealer  of  Weights  and  Meas- 
ures, and  shall  pay  the  driver  twenty-five  cents  for  the  detention 
thus  caused  ;  but  if  the  weight  certified  to  by  said  Sealer  is  less 
than  the  weight  previously  given  by  such  seller,  agent  or  driver, 
then  all  of  said  expenses  shall  be  paid  by  such  seller  of  such  hay 
or  coal. 

SEC.  17.  Weighing  of  Hay  and  Coal  for  Benefit  of  Public.  Said 
Sealer  of  Weights  and  Measures  shall  also  as  often  as  he  deems  it 
necessary,  inspect  for  the  benefit  of  the  public,  the  weight  of  hay 
or  coal  in  the  manner  above  described.  He  shall  not  however 
make  less  than  five  and  not  more  than  twenty-five  tests  in  any  one 
quarter  of  the  fiscal  year  of  the  City.  If  the  weight  certified  to  by 
said  Sealer  is  not  less  than  the  weight  previously  given  by  such 
dealer,  agent  or  driver,  the  City  shall  pay  the  fees  of  said  Sealer 
and  weigher  and  shall  pay  the  driver  twenty-five  cents  for  the  de- 
tention thus  caused  ;  but  if  the  weight  certified  to  by  said  Sealer  i§ 


90  CHAPTER  XXVI. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

less  than  the  weight  previously  given  by  such  seller,  agent  or 
driver,  then  all  such  expenses  shall  be  paid  by  the  seller  of  such 
hay  or  coal. 

SEC.  1 8.  Refusal  to  Have  Hay  or  Coal  Weighed;  Penalty.  All 
persons,  their  agents  or  drivers,  selling  hay  or  coal,  who  shall 
neglect  or  refuse  to  comply  with  the  request  of  the  purchaser  of 
such  hay  or  coal  to  give  such  purchaser  the  weight  of  such  hay  or 
coal  or  who  shall  refuse  to  have  the  cart  or  wagon  containing  such 
hay  or  coal  to  be  forthwith  weighed  by  the  Sealer  of  Weights  and 
Measures  on  request,  as  provided  for  in  sections  16  and  17  of  this 
Ordinance,  shall  be  fined  not  less  than  ten  nor  more  than  twenty- 
five  dollars,  one-half  of  which  shall  be  paid  to  the  person  or  per- 
sons giving  the  necessary  information  for  conviction  under  this 
section. 

SEC.  19.  Record  to  Be  Kept;  Report;  Fee.  The  Sealer  of 
Weights  and  Measures  shall  make  a  record  of  all  acts  performed 
by  him  relating  to  the  weighing  of  hay  or  coal,  the  date  thereof 
and  the  names  of  the  sellers  and  purchasers 'of  such  hay  or  coal, 
and  shall  make  a  quarterly  report  thereof  to  the  Common  Council. 
The  fee  of  said  Sealer  of  Weights  and  Measures  for  weighing  hay 
or  coal  shall  be  thirty-five  cents  per  weighing. 

SEC.  20.  Policemen  to  Assist  Sealer  of  Weights  and  Measures. 
It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  policeman  to  assist  the  Sealer  of 
Weights  and  Measures  when  required,  and  report  to  him  any  vio- 
lation within  his  knowledge,  of  any  provisions  of  this  ordinance 
relating  to  the  use  of  weights  and  measures  and  the  weighing  of 
hay  and  coal,  and  the  Sealer  of  Weights  and  Measures  shall  report 
the  same  to  the  Prosecuting  Attorney  for  prosecution  forthwith. 

SEC.  21.  Penally.  Every  person  who  shall  hinder  or  obstruct 
such  Sealer  of  Weights  and  Measures  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties 
herein  imposed  upon  him,  shall  forfeit  and  pay  for  each  offeree  a 
penalty  of  ten  dollars, 


CHAPTER  xxvii.  di 

WATER. 

CHAPTER  XXVII. 

WATER. 
Be  it  Ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  New  Britain  : 

SECTION  i.  Acting  Water  Commissioner;  Compe)tsation  nj  Com- 
missioners. The  chairman  of  the  board  of  water  commissioners 
shall  be  the  acting  commissioner  and  to  him  the  discharge  of  the 
active  duties  of  the  board  shall  pertain,  including  the  receipt  and 
dischargement  of  all  moneys  and  funds.  Such  acting  commis- 
sioner shall  receive  compensation  for  his  services  at  the  rate  of  one 
thousand  dollars  per  annum,  and  the  sum  of  three  dollars  per  day 
for  each  day  of  actual  service,  shall  also-  be  received  by  each  of 
the  other  commissioners  whenever  his  services  shall  be  required. 

Whenever  one  of  the  water  commissioners  shall  also  be  clerk  of 
the  board  of  said  commissioners,  his  salary  as  such  clerk  shall 
not  prevent  him  from  receiving  the  compensation  for  other  services 
outside  of  official  duties  as  clerk,  as  member  of  said  board. 

SEC.  2.  Annual  Report  to  the  Council.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of 
the  Water  Commissioners  to  report,  annually,  to  the  Common 
Council,  at  its  first  meeting  in  April,  a  classified  statement  of  all 
sums  received  by  them  from  all  sources,  and  all  expenditures  in- 
curred by  them,  together  with  a  general  exhibit  of  the  existing 
state  of  the  water  works  and  the  finances  relating  thereto,  which 
report,  having  been  duly  audited,  shall  be  recorded  by  the  City 
Clerk  and  published  in  such  manner  as  the  Common  Council  shall 
direct.  They  shall  also  report  at  any  time  upon  call  of  the  Com- 
mon Council. 

SEC.  3.  Water  Commissioners  to  Give  Bonds.  Each  of  the  Water 
Commissioners  shall  give  bond,  with  at  least  one  sufficient  surety, 
for  the  faithful  performance  of  his  duty,  the  Acting  Commissioner 
in  the  sum  of  fifteen  thousand  dollars,  and  the  others  in  the  sum  of 
five  hundred  dollars  each. 


92  CHAPTER    XXVII. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

SEC.  4.  To  Give  Consent  to  Use  of  Water.  Any  person  who 
shall  cause  or  allow  water  from  the  water  works  of  said  city  to  be 
introduced  upon  premises  owned  or  occupied  by  him,  or  who  shall 
use  an  additional  quantity  of  said  water,  or  shall  use  it  for  a  pur- 
pose different  from  that  for  which  it  has  previously  been  used  by 
him,  without  first  obtaining  the  written  consent  of  the  Chairman  of 
the  Board  of  Water  Commissioners  of  said  city,  shall  forfeit  and 
pay  for  each  offence  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than 
twenty-five  dollars. 

SEC.  5.  Penalty  for  Plumbers;  Changes  in  Water  Service.  Any 
person  who  shall  do  the  plumbing,  or  any  part  thereof,  necessary 
to  be  done  for  the  commission  of  any  of  the  acts  mentioned  in 
section  four,  knowing  that  the  consent  therein  required  has  not 
been  obtained,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  violation  of  this  ordi- 
nance and  shall  be  subject  to  the  penalty  above,  named.  All 
plumbers  must  make  monthly  reports  in  writing  to  the  Chairman 
of  the  Board  of  Water  Commissioners  of  all  changes  and  additions 
made  to  the  water  service.  Any  plumber  who  shall  fail  to  so 
report  before  the  loth  day  of  the  succeeding  month,  shall  be  guilty 
of  a  misdemeanor  and  shall  be  fined  five  dollars  for  each  offence. 

SEC.  6.  Penalty  for  Connecting  With  Water  Pipes  Every  per- 
son who  shall  without  special  authority  from  the  Commissioners, 
tap  or  make  any  connection  with  any  street  main  or  service  or 
other  distributing  pipe  connected  with  the  water  works,  shall  be 
guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  be  fined  not  exceeding  thirty  dollars 
for  each  offence. 

SEC.  7.  Penalty  for  Waste  r>f  Water.  No  owner  or  occupant 
of  any  premises  shall  allow  unnecessary  waste  of  the  public  or 
"Shuttle  Meadow"  water;  and  whenever  such  waste  occurs,  such 
owner  or  occupant  shall  forfeit  and  pay  for  each  offence  a  penalty 
of  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than  twenty-five  dollars.  The  Water 
Commissioners  of  said  city  shall  be  the  sole  judges  of  what  is  an 
unnecessary  waste  of  water. 


CHAPTER    XXVII.  93 

WATER. 

SEC.  8.  When  Water  Shall  Be  Shut  Off.  The  Water  Commis- 
sioners shall  cause  the  water  works  of  said  city  to  be  shut  off  from 
the  premises  of  any  person  or  corporation  neglecting  or  refusing 
to  pay  rent  for  the  use  of  said  water  within  the1  time  limited  for  the 
payment  thereof  in  the  rules  and  regulations  adopted  by  the  Com- 
missioners for  said  water  works,  or  for  the  willful  neglect  or  viola- 
tion of  any  of  said  rules  and  regulations  ;  and  any  person  who, 
without  written  consent  of  the  Chairman  of  said  Board  of  Water 
Commissioners,  shall  again  let  on  said  water  on  the  premises  of 
the  person  or  corporation  so  neglecting  or  offending,  shall  forfeit 
and  pay  a  penalty  of  not  less  than  five  nor  more  than  twenty-five 
dollars  for  each  offence. 

SEC.  9.  Boating,  Etc.,  on  Shuttle  Meadow  Lake  Prohibited. 
That  for  the  preservation  of  the  purity  of  the  water  at  Shuttle 
Meadow  Lake,  so-called,  in  the  Town  of  Southington,  and  of  the 
health  of  the  city,  all  boating  and  sailing  and  keeping  of  boats  or 
rafts,  upon  said  lake,  and  fishing  therein  from  boats  or  rafts,  and 
skating,  driving  or  riding  upon  the  ice  of  said  lake  with  horses  or 
other  animals,  and  the  throwing  into  the  water  of  said  lake  any 
dead  fish  or  animal,  or  refuse  of  any  kind  is  hereby  prohibited, 
and  any  person  who  shall  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of  this 
section  of  this  ordinance  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and 
shall  be  liable  to  a  fine  of  not  more  rhan  fifty  dollars  for  each 
offence. 

SEC.  10.  Exemptions  of  Water  Commissioners  and  Employees. 
The  provisions  of  section  nine  of  this  ordinance,  except  as  to  fish- 
ing from  boats  or  rafts  on  said  lake,  and  skating,  shall  not  apply 
to  persons  in  the  employ  of  said  city  of  New  Britain  or  the  Water 
Commissioners  thereof  while  engaged  upon  said  lake  in  maintain- 
ing, repairing  and  improving  the  water  works  of  said  city,  or  to 
the  keeping  or  maintaining  upon  said  lake  by  said  Water  Commis- 
sioners of  boats  or  rafts  to  be  used  for  said  purpose  of  maintain- 
ing, repairing  or  improving  said  water  works. 


&4  CHAPTER    XXVII. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

SEC.  ii.  Penalty  for  Opening  or  Obstructing  Access  to  Hydrants. 
If  any  person  except  firemen,  for  uses  of  the  fire  department,  shall 
open  any  public  hydrant  or  stop-cock  without  the  consent  of  the 
Commissioners,  or  if  any  person  shall  place  any  building  materials 
or  other  articles,  or  rubbish,  in  such  manner  as  to  hinder  or  ob- 
struct the  free  access  to  any  such  hydrant  or  stop-cock,  every  per- 
son so  offending  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  be  fined  not 
exceeding  thirty  dollars  for  each  offence. 

SEC.  12.  Permit  to  Dig  Up  Street  Required.  The  Water  Com- 
missioners shall  require  property  owners  wishing  to  connect  their 
premises  with  the  water  mains  to  show  a  permit  to  dig  up  the 
street,  signed  by  the  Street  Commissioner. 

SEC.  13.  Laying  of  Water  Mains  Outside  City  and  in  Unac- 
cepted Streets.  The  Water  Commissioners  be  and  they  are  hereby 
authorized  to  lay  water  mains  in  streets  or  highways  outside  the 
city  lines  and  in  unaccepted  streets  within  the  city  lines  where  the 
necessary  security  is  given  for  returns  and  the  grade  will  warrant  it. 

SEC.  14.  Petitions,  How  Acted  Upon.  Petitions  for  water  mains 
in  streets  or  highways  outside  the  city  limits,  or  in  unaccepted 
streets  in  the  city  limits,  when  presented  to  the  Common  Council, 
shall  be  referred  to  the  committee  on  water  and  light,  and  said 
committee  shall  consult  with  the  Water  Commissioners  before  the 
petition  shall  be  anthorized  by  the  vote  of  the  Common  Council. 

SEC.  15.  Selectmen  to  Be  Consulted.  Before  water  mains  are 
laid  outside  the  city  lines,  the  Water  Commissioners  shall  consult 
with  and  make  necessary  arrangements  with  the  Board  of  Select- 
men of  the  town  concerning  the  excavation  of  the  street  or  high- 
way and  the  protection  of  the  same  during  the  progress  of  the 
work. 

SEC.  1 6.  Duty  of  Water  Commissioners.  It  shall  be  the  duty 
of  the  Water  Commissioners  of  said  city  to  see  that  the  provisions 
of  this  ordinance  are  enforced. 


CHAPTER  XXVIII.  95 

AN   ORDINANCE    TO    CARRY    INTO    EFFECT  THE   REVISION  OF 
THE    ORDINANCES. 


CHAPTER  XXVIII. 

AN    ORDINANCE    TO    CARRY    INTO    EFFECT    THE    RE- 
VISION OF  THE  ORDINANCES. 

Be  it  Ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  New 
Britain  : 

SECTION  i.  Revised  Ordinances,  When  to  Take  Effect.  On  and 
after  the  first  day  of  August,  1896,  the  revision  of  the  ordinances 
of  said  city,  adopted  on  the  i5th  day  of  July,  1896,  as  the  same 
have  been  revised,  arranged  and  incorporated  together,  by  the 
Ordinance  Committee  of  the  Common  Council  passed  July  15, 
1896,  shall  be  and  remain  the  ordinances  of  said  city,  and  be  en- 
titled the  Ordinances  of  the  City  of  New  Britain. 

SEC.  2.  Revised  Ordinances  Not  to  Be  Published  in  a  News- 
paper. And  whereas,  the  said  ordinances  of  said  city  require  that 
each  ordinance  shall  be  published  in  a  newspaper  in  said  city  be- 
fore the  same  shall  be  valid  and  operative,  nevertheless  the  revision 
of  the  ordinances  as  aforesaid  shall  without  being  published  in  any 
newspaper  be  valid  and  operative,  notwithstanding  said  ordinance; 
provided,  however,  that  this  particular  ordinance  shall  be  pub- 
lished as  by  the  ordinances  required. 

SEC.  3.  Record  Copy.  One  copy  of  said  ordinances  as  pub- 
lished by  said  Committee  on  Ordinances,  shall  be  by  them  depos- 
ited, and  thereafter  kept  in  the  office  of  the  City  Clerk,  who  shall 
annex  thereto  a  certificate  under  his  hand  and  the  seal  of  said  city, 
that  the  ordinances  therein  contained  are  the  ordinances  of  said 
city,  and  such  copy  shall  be  an  authentic  record  of  such  ordin- 
ances, 


96  CHAPTER  XXIX. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

CHAPTER  XXIX. 

SUBWAY  COMMISSION. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  New 
Britain  : 

SECTION  i.  Election  of  Commissioners.  The  Board  of  Subway 
Commissioners  shall  consist  of  three  electors  of  said  city,  to  be 
elected  by  the  Common  Council,  one  member  to  serve  until  the 
third  Wednesday  of  April,  1900,  or  until  his  successor  is  duly 
elected  and  qualified.  One  member  until  the  third  Wednesday  in 
April,  1901,  or  until  his  successor  is  duly  appointed  and  qualified, 
and  one  member  until  the  third  Wednesday  in  April,  1902,  or  until 
his  successor  is  duly  appointed  and  qualified. 

The  Common  Council  shall  during  the  month  of  April,  A.  D., 
1901,  on  or  after  the  third  Wednesday  in  said  month  in  April  in 
each  year  thereafter,  elect  one  member  of  said  board,  who  shall 
hold  office  for  the  term  of  three  years  from  the  third  Wednesday  of 
April  of  the  year  in  which  he  was  elected  ;  and  until  his  successor 
is  duly  elected  and  qualified.  Not  more  lhan  two  members  of  the 
board  shall  be  of  the  same  political  party. 

SEC.  2.  Vacancy  Filled.  Removal  ol  Members.  Whenever  a 
vacancy  shall  occur  in  said  board  it  shall  be  filled  in  the  manner 
provided  in  the  section  for  the  appointment  of  members  ;  and 
said  Common  Council  may  remove  any  member  for  cause. 

SEC.  3.  Commissioners  to  Be  Trustees.  Said  Board  of  Subway 
Commissioners  shall  be  the  trustees  of  the  notes,  scrip  or  certifi- 
cates of  debt  issued  by  the  city  for  the  construction  and  mainten- 
ance of  conduits,  and  shall  keep  a  record  of  all  such  notes,  scrip 
or  certificates  of  debt  issued,  disposed  of  or  pledged,  and  all 
moneys  received  by  said  board  from  the  disposal  of  such  notes, 
scrip  or  certificates  of  debts,  rentals  for  conduits,  or  from  any 
other  source  whatsoever,  shall  be  by  them  paid  over  to  the  treas* 
urer  of  said  city. 


CHAPTER  XXIX.  97 

SUBWAY    COMMISSION. 

SEC.  4.  Construction,  Etc.,  of  Conduits;  Records  and  Reports; 
Contracts.  Said  board  is  authorized  and  empowered  to  attend  to 
the  construction,  supervision,  care  and  management  of  the  con- 
duits of  said  city,  the  renting,  collection  of  rentals  for  the  use  of 
said  conduits  by  corporations  or  individuals,  and  to  exercise  any  ad- 
ditional powers  conferred  upon  them  by  the  Common  Council ;  and 
they  shall  keep  a  record  of  their  official  proceedings,  and  render  a 
report  of  their  doings  to  said  Common  Council  quarterly  (and 
oftener  if  requested),  including  a  general  exhibit  of  the  state  of  its 
works,  an  account  of  sums  required  to  be  expended  therefor,  and 
such  other  matters  of  importance  as  may  be  called  for  by  said 
Common  Council,  provided  that  said  board  shall  always  be  under 
the  direction  of  the  Common  Council  of  said  city,  and  all  contracts 
proposed  to  be  made  by  it  shall  be  submitted  to  the  Common 
Council  for  its  approval  and  ratification. 

SEC.  5.  Salaries.  Each  member  of  the  Board  of  Subway  Com- 
missioners shall  receive  a  salary  and  compensation  of  One  Hundred 
Dollars  ($100)  per  annum,  payable  monthly,  same  as  other  city 
officials.  The  clerk  of  said  board  shall  receive  a  salary  and  com- 
pensation of  Fifty  Dollars  ($50)  per  annum,  payable  same  as  other 
city  officials,  said  salaries  to  be  taken  from  the  Subway  Fund.  A 
member  of  said  board  may  act  as  clerk  and  draw  salary  as  such. 

SEC.  6.  Bonds.  Each  member  of  the  Board  of  Subway  Com- 
missioners shall  give  a  bond  with  at  least  one  surety,  in  the  sum  of 
two  thousand  ($2,000)  dollars  for  the  faithful  performance  of  his 
duty. 

SEC.  7.  Recommendations.  All  recommendations  of  the  Board 
of  Subway  Commissioners  to  the  Common  Council  in  regard  to 
the  building  of  conduits  shall  contain  a  careful  estimate  of  the  cost 
of  construction,  and  all  bids  and  proposals  for  construction  or 
other  work,  to  be  submitted  to  the  Common  Council  for  its  ratifi- 
cation. 

SEC.  8.  Wires  Required  in  Conduits.  All  parties  and  corpora- 
tions owning  or  operating  electric  wires  except  such  as  are  used  in 


98  CHAPTER  XXIX. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

operating  signals  on  any  railroad,  or  wires  used  in  connection  with 
the  operation  of  any  railroad  by  means  of  electricity  upon  a  third 
rail  system,  over  or  along  the  streets  and  highways  in  said  city 
where  main  conduits  are  built  and  constructed,  are  hereby  required 
to  place  such  electric  wires  underground  in  said  conduits  and  to 
remove  the  poles  carrying  only  such  wires,  within  two  months  after 
this  ordinance  goes  into  effect  and  written  notice  thereof  has  been 
given  to  said  parties  and  corporations  by  the  clerk  of  said  city. 

SEC.  9.  Rentals.  The  rentals  for  the  use  of  conduits  shall  be 
as  follows,  to  wit :  Three  and  one-half  ($.03^)  cents  per  foot 
until  January  i,  1902. 

SEC.  10.  Rule*  and  Regulations.  The  rules  and  regulations  re- 
lating to  the  use  and  occupancy  of  the  subway  system,  adopted  by 
the  Common  Council,  February  21,  1901,  and  by  the  subway  com- 
mission February  23,  1901,  are  hereby  amended  by  certain  changes 
to  rules  and  regulations  dated  May  29,  1901,  submitted  to  this 
meeting  and  on  file,  and  rules  and  regulations  as  amended  are 
hereby  adopted,  ratified  and  confirmed. 

SEC.  ii.  Penalty.  Any  party  or  corporation  who  shall  fail  or 
neglect  to  comply  with  the  provisions  of  section  ten  (10)  of  this 
ordinance  shall  forfeit  and  pay  to  the  use  of  said  city  a  penalty  of 
fifty  dollars  for  each  week  during  which  such  failure  or  neglect 
shall  continue,  to  be  recovered  by  an  action  of  debt  or  other 
proper  action  in  the  name  of  the  city,  brought  to  the  city  court  of 
said  city,  and  each  week's  continuance  of  such  failure  or  neglect 
shall  constitute  a  separate  offence  but  the  provisions  of  this  section 
shall  not  prevent  said  city  from  pursuing  any  remedy  it  would 
otherwise  have  in  law  or  equity  to  enforce  the  provisions  of  said 
section  ten  (10). 

SEC.  12.  Pay  of  Laborers.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Clerk 
of  the  Board  of  Subway  Commissioners  whenever  laborers  are  em- 
ployed in  the  Subway  Department,  to  make  out  a  pay  roll  on  which 
shall  be  entered  the  names  of  every  workman,  the  number  of  hours 
of  work  performed  by  each  for  the  preceding  week,  and  the  place 
where  such  work  was  done,  including  teams,  if  any,  the  price  per 


CHAPTER   XXX.  && 

RESTRICTION    ON    COMMISSION. 

hour  and  amount.  And  when  such  pay  roll  shall  have  been  approved 
by  the  Mayor,  an  order  shall  be  drawn  by  the  Auditor  for  the  full 
amount  of  the  same,  and  the  Auditor  shall  deliver  the  same  to  the 
City  Clerk,  who  shall  draw  the  money  on  said  order  and  pay  the 
workmen  on  or  before  Saturday  of  each  week,  taking  a  receipt  for 
the  same  from  each  workman. 


CHAPTER  XXX. 

RESTRICTION  ON  COMMISSION. 

Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  New 
Britain  : 

SECTION  i.  Bond  of  Chairman  of  Police  Board.  The  Chair- 
man of  the  Board  of  Police  Commissioners  shall  furnish  bonds  to 
the  city  in  the  sum  of  $1,000  for  the  faithful  performance  of  his 
duty,  said  bond  to  be  renewed  each  year,  upon  his  election  as  such 
chairman.  The  cost  of  procuring  said  bond  shall  be  paid  by  the 
city. 

SEC.  2.  Auditor  to  Make  Quarterly  Report.  The  City  Auditor 
shall  make  detailed  quarterly  reports  to  the  Common  Council  of 
the  financial  condition  of  all  departments  whose  business  is  trans- 
acted through  him. 

SEC.  3.  Examination  of  Books  of  Departments.  Committee  of 
three  members  each,  of  the  Common  Council,  to  be  named  by  the 
Mayor,  shall  annually  (or  oftener  if  deemed  necessary)  examine 
the  books,  accounts,  vouchers  and  records  of  the  water,  sewer,  fire 
and  police  commissioners,  and  report  to  the  Common  Council  the 
results  of  their  examination. 

SEC.  4.  Furnishing  Supplies,  Etc.  Members  of  the  various 
commissions  of  the  city  are  prohibited  from  directly  or  indirectly 
furnishing  supplies  or  doing  work  in  their  departments,  except  such 
as  come  within  the  scope  of  their  official  duties.  Violation  of  this 
ordinance  shall  be  cause  for  removal. 


100  CHAPTER  XXXI. 

NEW  BRITAIN  CITY  ORDINANCES. 

CHAPTER  XXXI. 

COMMITTEE  OF  PUBLIC  WORKS. 
Be  it  ordained  by  the  Common  Council  of  the  City  of  New  Britain : 

SECTION  i.  Membership  of  Cemmittee  of  Public  Works.  There 
is  hereby  created  a  Committee  of  Public  Works  for  said  City,  com- 
prised of  seven  members,  as  follows,  to  wit :  The  chairman  of  the 
Committee  on  Streets,  ex-officio,  the  Street  Commissioner,  ex- 
officio,  one  member  of  the  Board  of  Water  Commissioners,  one 
member  of  the  Board  of  Sewer  Commissioners,  one  member  of  the 
Board  of  Subway  Commissioners,  said  last  three  members  to  be 
appointed  by  their  respective  boards  at  their  first  meeting  in  the 
month  of  May,  the  Superintendent  of  the  Water  Department,  ex- 
officio,  and  the  Superintendent  of  the  Sewer  Department,  ex-offiio. 

SEC.  2.  Election  of  Chairman  and  Clerk.  Said  Committee  of 
Public  Works  shall  choose  annually  their  own  chairman  and  clerk 
and  shall  meet  at  least  monthly,  and  oftener  if  desired,  upon  the 
call  of  the  chairman  of  said  committee  or  of  any  two  members 
thereof. 

SEC.  3.  Duties  of  Committee.  Said  Committee  of  Public  Works 
shall  consider  the  methods,  plans  and  times  of  doing  all  work  in 
and  upon  the  streets  of  said  city  and  shall  endeavor  so  to  arrange 
for  the  doing  of  such  work  as  to  avoid  confusion,  waste  and  delay 
in  the  execution  thereof. 

SEC.  4.  Changes  in  Ordinances.  Said  Committee  of  Public 
Works  with  the  Committee  on  Ordinances  shall  recommend  such 
changes  in  the  ordinances  as  may  be  necessary  to  require  the  differ- 
ent commissions  in  said  city  to  so  plan  their  respective  works  and 
improvements  as  not  to  conflict  with  other  department  work  in  the 
same  locality  and  to  prohibit  any  work  to  be  done  upon  the  city 
streets  until  seasonable  notice  thereof  has  been  given,  so  that  all 
the  city  departments  may,  as  the  interests  of  the  city  may  require, 
anticipate  such  work  and  arrange  therefore. 


STANDING   RULES  OF  THE   COMMON  COUNCIL.  101 

STANDING    RULES    OF    THE    COMMON 
COUNCIL. 


OPENING    OF    COUNCIL. 

I.  The  Mayor,  or  in  his  absence  the  President  pro  tern,  or  if 
both  are  absent,  the  Senior  Alderman  present  shall  preside,  and 
shall  call  the  members  to  order  ;  and  upon  the  call  of  the  roll  and 
the   appearance  of   a  quorum,   cause  the  records  of  the  previous 
meeting  to  be  read,  (if  they  have  been  printed  or  typewritten  and 
each  member  furnished  with  a  copy,  the  reading  can  be  omitted), 
an  opportunity  shall  be  given  that  any  mistakes  in  the  same  may 
be  corrected. 

ORDER    OF    BUSINESS. 

II.  The  business  in  order  after  the  disposal  of  the  records  of 
the   previous  meeting,  shall   be  :    first,  reception  and   disposal   of 
petitions  ;  and  each  petition  and  memorial  shall  be  referred  to  a 
committee,    unless   the    Council   shall    otherwise    order ;    second, 
reading  and  disposal  of  reports  of  committees,  reports  of  standing 
committees  to  have  preference  ;  third,  unfinished  business,  includ- 
ing "  orders  of  the  day  "  ;   fourth,  new  business  ;  fifth,  adjournment. 

III.  All  communications,  reports,  etc.,  to  the  Council,  whether 
written  or  printed,  shall  be  read  unless  it  is  voted  to  dispense  with 
their  reading. 

IV.  Notice  of  hearings  on  building  lines,  changes  of  grades, 
opening   of  or   acceptance   of  streets,    etc.,   before   the  Common 
Council,  shall  set  the  time  at  least  one  half  hour  before  the  regular 
meeting  time,  and  the  maps  and  profiles  showing  such  changes  to 
be  there  for  inspection,  and  the  City  Surveyor  and  Chairman  of 
the  Committee  having  the  same  in  charge,  are  to  be  in  attendance, 
to  give  all  necessary  information  to  interested  parties. 

V.  Hearings  before   the   Common   Council   are  to  open  after 
roll  call,  and  the  disposal  of  the  records  of  the  previous  meeting. 


STANDING   RULES   OF  THE   COMMON  COUNCIL. 


PRESIDING    OFFICER. 

VI.  The  presiding  officer  shall  preserve  order  and  decorum  ; 
may  speak  to  questions  of  order,  or  other  questions  in  preference 
to  other  members  ;  and  shall  decide  questions  of  order,  subject  to 
appeal  to  the  Council  by  any  member. 

COMMITTEES HOW    APPOINTED. 

VII.  Special  Committees  shall  be  appointed  by  the  presiding 
officer,  unless  otherwise  specially  directed  ;  and  other  Committees 
may  be  chosen  by  nomination  or  resolution. 

THOSE    OFFERING    PETITIONS,    ETC.,    TO    ENDORSE    THEM. 

VIII.  Every  petition,  resolution,  or  memorial,  shall  be  offered 
by  some  member  of  the  Council,  who  shall  endorse  thereon  his 
name,  and  hand  the  same  to  the  presiding  officer  or  City  Clerk  be- 
fore action  by  the  Council. 

RULES    OF    DEBATE. 

IX.  When   a   member   of   the    Council   is   about  to  speak,   he 
shall   rise   from   his   seat   and   respectfully  address   the   presiding 
officer,  and  must  be  recognized  by  him  before  he  has  the  right  to 
the  floor,  (unless  by  a  vote  of  the  Council).      Being  recognized, 
he  shall  confine  himself  to  the  question  and  avoid  personalities  or 
imputing  to  any  member  improper  motives  ;  and  during  debate, 
or  when  the  presiding  officer  or  a  member  is  speaking,  no  member 
shall  hold  private  discourse,  or  pass  between  the  speaker  and  the 
Chair. 

CALLS    TO    ORDER. 

X.  If  any  member,  in  speaking  or  otherwise,  transgresses  the 
rules  of  the  Council,  the  Chair  shall,   or  any  member  may,   call 
him  to  order,   in  which  case  the  member  so  called  to  order,  shall 
sit  down  unless  permitted  to  explain.     In  case  of  an  appeal  to  the 
Council,  and  a  decision  in  favor  of  the  member  called  to  order, 
he  shall  be  at  liberty  to  proceed  ;  otherwise  he  shall  not  be  per- 
mitted to  proceed  without  leave  of  the  Council. 


STANDING    RULES    OF   THE    COMMON   COUNCIL.  103 

MOTIONS. 

XL  When  a  motion  is  made  it  shall  be  stated  by  the  presiding 
officer,  or  being  in  writing,  shall  be  read  aloud  before  being  de- 
bated. Every  motion  shall  be  reduced  to  writing  at  the  request 
of  the  Chair,  and  every  resolution  or  report  shall  be  in  writing 
and  signed  by  some  member. 

MEMBERS    SHALL    SPEAK    BUT     TWICE    ON    A    QUESTION. 

XII.  No    person    shall    speak    more    than  twice  on  the   same 
question  without  leave  of  the  Council,  unless  to  explain. 

WITHDRAWAL    AND    RECONSIDERATION    OF    MOTIONS. 

XIII.  When  a  motion  is  stated  by  the  presiding  officer,  it  shall 
be  deemed  to  be  in  possession  of  the  Council,  but  may  be  with- 
drawn  at  any  time  before  decision  or  amendment,  but  not  after 
amendment,  unless  the  Council  gives  leave  ;  and  when  a  motion 
has  been  carried,  it  shall  be  in  order  for  any  member  in  the  major- 
ity to  move  the  reconsideration  thereof,  within  two  meetings  after 
the  one  at  which  such  motion  was  carried,  and  such  motion  shall 
take  precedence  of  all  questions,  except  a  motion  to  adjourn. 

PRECEDENCE    OF    MOTIONS    RECEIVED    DURING    DEBATE. 

XIV.  When  a  question  is  under  debate,  no  motion  shall  be 
received  but  to  adjourn,  to  lay  on  the  table,  to  postpone  to  a  day 
certain,  to  commit  or  amend,  or  to  postpone  indefinitely,  which 
several  motions  shall  have  precedence  in  the  order  in  which  they 
stand  arranged.     The  motion  to  adjourn  shall  always  be  in  order ; 
and  that,  and  the  motion  to  lay  on  the  table,  (unless  to  a  specified 
time),  shall  be  decided  without  debate. 

YEAS    AND    NAYS. 

XV.  The  yeas  and  nays  shall  be  taken  when  called  for  by  three 
members ;  and  the  names  of  the  members  shall  be  called  in  the 
order  of  wards. 


104  STANDING   RULES   OF  THE   COMMON  COUNCIL. 


WHEN    MEMBERS    MAY    BE    EXCUSED    FROM    VOTING. 

XVI.  No  member  shall  be  excused  from  voting  on  any  ques- 
tion, unless  he   is  personally  interested  in  the  result,  or  shall  be 
excused  by  a  vote  of  the  Council ;  and  no  member  shall  be  per- 
mitted to  vote   after  the  decision  is  announced  by  the  presiding 
officer. 

XVII.  Questions  arising  on  parliamentary  ruling  not  covered 
by  these  rules,  shall  be  decided  by  the  presiding  officer  in  accord- 
ance with  Cushing's  Manual. 

SUSPENSION    OF    THE    RULES. 

XVIII.  No  rules  shall  be  suspended,  except  by  a  vote  of  two- 
thirds  of  the  members  present. 


ORDINANCE  INDEX. 


ORDINANCE    INDEX. 


ORDINANCE  INDEX, 


Abatement  of  taxes  by  finance  committee,  82 

of  nuisances,    /  39 

Accounts  and  claims,  ordinances  concerning,  3  to  8 

against  city  to  be  itemized,  3 

authority  required  to  contract,  3 

due  debtor  of  city,  to  be  withheld,  5 

how  contracted  and  paid  by  health  committee,  43 

requiring  certificate  of  corporation  counsel,  -           3 

requiring  certificate  of  city  clerk,     -  4 

to  be  referred  to  committee  on  claims,  -      4,  5 
salaries  and  wages,  orders  for,   to   be  approved 

by  mayor,  63 

to  be  collected  by  the  chief  of  police,    -  8 

what  audited  by  auditor,        -  8 
Advertisements,  see  posters. 
Alarm,  false,  see  Fire. 

Alderman,  may  issue  warrants  for  collection  of  taxes,  82 

Amusements,  ordinances  concerning,      -                            -  8  to  10 

license  for,  when  necessary  and  how  granted,       8,  9 

Animals,  ordinance  concerning,  10 

dead,  conveying  uncovered  through   the   streets  a 

nuisance,  49 

dead,  when  owner  and  when  police  to  bury,     -  51 

dead,  depositing  in  streets,  a  nuisance,      -  49 

fastening  to  a  tree,   a  nuisance,  49 

penalty  for  fastening  to  fire  alarm  poles,   -  32 

not  to  be  at  large,  penalty,        -  10 
Appeals,  see  city  and  police  court,  assessments. 


108  ORDINANCE    INDEX. 

Assembling,  idly  and  in  crowds,  a  nuisance,  50 

Assessments,  of  damages,  how  paid,       -  4,  5 

hearings  before  street  commissioners,  69 
to  be  paid  to  and  from  street    improvement 

fund,      -  77,  78 
lists,  city,  rate-bill  maker  to  prepare  from  town,     81 
lists,  taxes  levied  on  last  made  of  town,  81 
of  damages  and  benefits,  notice  of,  69 
unpaid,  to  be  reported  to  council,       -  83 
Assessor,  town,  when  to  assess  real  estate  in  city,  and  com- 
pensation of,  8 1 
Assistant  attorney,  compensation  of,  62 

see  also  corporation  counsel,  prosecuting  attorney. 

Assistant  city  clerk,  duties  of,  salary,  48,   61 

Assistant  judge  of  city  and  police  court,  salary  62 

Auditor,  city,  bond,  64 

for  what  bills  to  draw  orders  on  treasurer,        -  3 
order  of,   for  salaries  of  city  officers    and    police 

force,  63 
pay  roll  of  street  department,  63,  71 
to  draw  order  for  pay  roll  of  Health  Depart- 
ment, 45 
to  draw  order  for  pay  roll  of  Subway  Department,  98 
compensation  of,  61 
to  report  taxes  and  assessments  uncollected,  82 
duties  of,                                                                 8,  6,  63,  71 
orders  by,  how  authorized,  3 
mayor  to  approve  orders  of,  for  pay  rolls  and  sal- 
aries,                            .  3,  63 
orders  of,  to  specify  nature  of  claims,        -  3 
to  report  when  approved  bills  exceed  appro-  7 
priations,  7 
to  keep  classification  book  and  duties  of,  concern- 
ing, 6 
to  keep  books,  7 


ORDINANCE    INDEX.  lOd 

Auditor,  to  make  quarterly  reports,  99 

to  classify  claims,  6 

to  report  monthly,  6 

to  report  when  bills  exceed  appropriation,  -                  7 

finance  committee  to  instruct,  7 


Badges,  see  police,  55 

Ball  playing  in  streets  a  nuisance,  5 1 

Barns  and  stables,  lights,  &c.,  in,  31 

Bells,  hand,  ringing  of,  when  a  nuisance,  50 

on  horses,  sleighs,  etc.,  50 
Benefits  and  damages,  see  assessments, 

Bills,  posting  restricted,        -  10 

tearing  down,  penalty,  10 

to  be  itemized,  3 

Boating,  &c.,  on  Shuttle  Meadow  lake,  prohibited,  93 

Board  of  health,  see  health  committee. 

street  commissioners,  see  street  commissioners, 
fire  commissioners,  see  fire  commissioners, 
police  commissioners,  see  police  commissioners, 
sewer  commissioners,  see  sewer  commissioners, 
water  commissioners,  see  water  commissioners, 
subway  commissioners,  see  subway  commissioners, 

relief,  finance  committee,  to  act  as,       -  81 

Bonds,  neglect  or  refusal  to  give,  vacates  what  offices,  63,  64 

of  city  officers,  requisites  of,,      -  63,  64 

amount  of  penalty  of,  64 

of  disbursing  officers  and  committees,     -  64 

of  sewer  commissioners,        -  65 

of  street  commissioner,  64,  69 

of  water  commissioners,        .  64,  91 

of  subway  commissioners,  64,  97 

of  chairman  of  police  commissioners,  64,  99 


110  ORDINANCE    INDEX. 

Bonds,  to  accompany  proposals  for  contracts,  13,  14 
ordinances  concerning,  61  to  65 
when  streets    and  sidewalks  are  excavated,   or  ob- 
structed, 71 

Bonfires  and  fireworks  in  streets  or  parks,  32 

Building,  inspector,  powers  and  duties  of,  22 

inspector,  resisting,  penalty,  25 

to  act  as  fire  marshal,  penalty,  25 

permits,   within   fire   district    to  be  approved  by 

council,  22 

permits,  good  for  one  year,  26 

when  required,  and  how  obtained.  15,  21 

to  be  recorded,              -              -    .          -             -  .             ic 

/  * 

materials  in  streets  without  license  a  nuisance,  50 

Buildings,  ordinance  concerning,  15  to  26 

ordinance  not  retroactive,  23 

ordinance  not  to  apply  to  buildings  in  course  of 

construction,  23 

plans  to  be  approved,  40 

alterations  to  be  made  at  cost  of  owner,  .          25 

backing  of  walls  of,  19 

walls  of,  mortar  for,  19 

and  encroachments,  committee  on,  duties  of,  22 
and  encroachments,   committee    on,    may    order 

correction  of  defects  in  buildings,  24 

permits  by,  15,  21 

endangering  fire  near  or  in,  a  nuisance,  51 
heading  courses  in  walls  of,  '19 
house  plans  to  be  approved  by  health  com- 
mittee, 40 
inspector  of,  to  act  as  fire  marshal,  25 
appointment  and  pay  of,  37,  38 
qualifications  of,  38 
to  enforce  law  concerning  fire  escapes,  24 
to  keep  a  record,                             .  25 


ORDINANCE    INDEX.  HI 

Buildings,  inspector  of,  may  order  stay  of  progress,  24 
alteration    of    buildings     under     direction 

of,  21 

penalty  for  resisting,  25 

to  investigate  fines,  26 

lights,  matches,  etc.,  in,  prohibited',  31 

may  be  raised  Jfor  new  roofing,  when,  20 

notice  of  alteration  of  plans  of,  how  given,  23 

office,  tenement  and  store  how  constructed,  18 

orders  of  council  concerning,  how  enforced,  25 

outside  walls  and  chimneys,  17,  20 

foundation  walls  of,  18 

party  walls  of,  how  constructed,  17 
penalties  for  violation  of  ordinance   on  erection 

of,  23 

permits  for,  fees  of,  and  to  whom  paid,  23 
plans  and  specifications  of,  etc.,  to  be  submitted 

to  inspector  of  buildings,  -  22,  40 
plumbing  in.  to  be  approved  before  work  on,  40 
removed  to  rear  of  lot  without  permit,  when,  24 
under  supervision  of  inspector,  24 
unsafe,  fire  escapes,  24 
fence,  or  enclosure,  defacing  or  soiling,  a  nui- 
sance, 50 
gates  or  fence,  erecting  in  streets,  a  nuisance,  49 
accumulating  combustible  materials  in,  when  a 

nuisance,  51 

egress  from,  24 

walls  of,  faced  with  ashlar,  .          19 

walls  of,  how  united  and  anchored,  19 
walls  of  within  fire  districts,         .                        17,  18,  19 

when  may  be  demolished  in  case  of  fire,  27 

wood  work  on,  to  be  protected  etc.,  20,  24 

moving  through  streets,  15,  70 

materials  and  construction  of  walls.  17 

frames  repaired  in  fire  district,  21 

change  in  plans,  23 

Burials,                                            -  41 


112  ORDINANCE    INDEX. 

c 

Calls  to  order,                                                      .  -              -        102 
Carriages  to  be  disinfected,  when,  42 
Cars,  stoppage  of  in  case  of  emergency,       -  67 
ordinances  concerning,  -       67,  68 
Cesspools,  how  cleaned,        -  -         52 
how  constructed.        -  52 
Charges  against  policemen,  causes  for  preferring,  -                       56 
Chicken  pens,  when  a  nuisance,  48 
Chimneys,  how  constructed  in  fire  district,  20 
Church,    assembling    idly    and    in    crowds    before,   a    nui- 
sance, 50 
City  Auditor,  see  auditor. 

City  Clerk,  bond  of,  63,  64 
powers  and  duties,  7,  48,  80 
salary,  .  61 
to  be  clerk  of  committee  on  licenses,  and  du- 
ties of,  .  9 
certificate  of,  required  in  claims  for  damages,  5 
to  furnish  auditor  certified  copies  of  votes  to 

pay  accounts,  -  53 
to  pay  fire  department,  30 
to  pay  street  department,  -  71 
to  pay  health  department,  45 
to  pay  subway  department,  99 
to  be  clerk  of  all  committees,  48 
to  keep  books  of  street  department,  48 
to  keep  properly  indexed  records  of  proceed- 
ings of  city  and  common  council,  48 
to  keep  record  of  accounts  due  city,  7 
to  keep  contracts  on  file,  13 
to  record  warrants  for  city  and  common  coun- 
cil meetings,  47 
to  sign  certificates  of  honorary  membership  of 

fire  department,  30 


ORDINANCE    INDEX.  113 

City  Clerk,  assistant,  powers  and  duties,     -  48 

assessment  list  to  be  deposited  with,  81 

to  have  custody  of  work  of  street  lighting  com- 
mittee, 79 
to  have  custody  of  supplies,       -                                      80 
to  administer  oath  to  policemen,                                    56 
duties   of,   in  cases  of  claims  for  damages    to 

person  or  property,  5 

duties  of,  in  claims  for  damages  on  account  of 

defective  streets  or  sidewalks,       -  6 

field  book  of  city  surveyor,  to  be  deposited  with,      n 
ordinances  to  be  deposited  with,      .  .  95 

records  of  health  committee  to  be  kept  in  office 

of,  38 

to  record  report  of  water  commissioners,  91 

to  withhold  order  for  payment  to  debtor  of  city,          5 
City  Collector,  see  collector. 

City  Court,  judge,  salary  of,  .  ,  .  .61 

clerk,  bond,  and  effect  of  neglect  or  refusal  to  give,  64 

salary, •  .....          62 

City  Surveyor,  see  surveyor. 
City  meetings,  see  meetings. 

City  officers,  election,  term  of  office,      ...  14 

auditing  accounts  of,  .  8 

compensation  of,  .  .  .     61  to  63 

City  rate  bill  maker,  see  rate  bill  maker. 
sheriff,  see  sheriff, 
surveyor,  see  surveyor, 
treasurer,  see  treasurer, 
health  officer,  see  health  officer. 
Claims    for    public    improvements    to   be  certified  by  city 

clerk,  .....  4 

not   to    be    paid    unless    approved   by  corporation 
counsel,        ...  6 

against  city  to  be  filed  in  classification  book,  6 


114  ORDINANCE    INDEX. 

Claims,  to  be  paid  in  order  by  orders  drawn  by  auditor 

and  presented,  .  .  *  .  4 

to  be  filed  by  city  clerk,        ....  7 

to  notify  responsible  party  of  hearing  in  damage 

cases,  .  .  .  .  ,  .  5 

committee  not  to  approve  bills  of  street  commis- 
sioner, when,  .....  5 

committee,  appointment  of  and  duties,  .  4 

Classification  book,  to  be  kept  by  auditor,  .  .  6 

Clerk  of  city,  see  city  clerk. 

and  police  courts,  see  city  and  police  courts, 
•fire  companies,  see  fire  department, 
board  of  street  commissioners,  see  streets, 
police  commissioners,  compensation,  .  63 

fire  commissioners,  compensation,  .  .          62 

sewer  commissioners,  salary,  .  .  .62 

water  commissioners,  salary,  .  .  62,  69 

subway  commissioners,  salary,  .  .  63 

committee  on  public  works,  appointment,  .        TOO 

all  committees,  ...  48 

Coasting,  see  nuisance. 

Collector,  powers  and  duties,  bond,  and  effect  of  neglect  to 

give,          .  63,  64 

compensation,  ....  63 

limit  of  time  of  collecting  rate  bill,          .  .          82 

accounts  of,  how  audited,       ...  82 

Committee,  health,  see  health. 

finance,  see  finance. 

license,  see  license. 

sinking  fund,  see  sinking  fund. 

supplies,  see  supplies. 

special,  of  common  council,  .  .  102 

on  street  lighting,  see  street  lighting. 

of  public  works,  see  public  works,  .  100 


ORDINANCE    INDEX.  H5 

Committee,  of  public  works,  ordinance  concerning,          &;,        100 

chairman  and  clerk,  election,  .  100 

meetings,  .  .  .  .100 

duties  of,       .  .  .  .  ioo 

ordinance,  changes  in,  to  be  suggested,         ioo 

Communications,  .-"          .  .  .  .  101 

Common  Council,  when  to  regulate  mode  and  materials  of 

building,  and  alterations  in  buildings,      18,  19,  20,  21 
new  streets  not  to  be  opened  without  consent  of,  73 

to  authorize  orders  upon  the  treasurer,  .  4 

meetings  of,  time,  and  how  called,  .  47,  48 

standing  rules  of,         .  .  .  101  to  104 

to  fix  pay  of  janitor  city  building,  .  .          58 

unpaid  taxes  to  be  reported  to,  .  .         82,  83 

to  control  street  lighting,  .  .  .78 

to  appoint  sanitary  inspector  and  fix  compensation,     37 
building  permits  granted  by,  when,  .  15,  21 

to  choose  city  officers,  when  and  how,  .  14 

to  fill  vacancies  in  office,  how,      .  .  .14 

to  elect  city  surveyor,  .  .  .  1 1 

orders  of  concerning  buildings  how  enforced,       .          25 
not    to    order    payment    of  claims    unless   acted 

upon  by  committee,       ....  5 

orders  of  relative  to  streets,  how  executed,  69 

presiding  officer  of,  .  .  .  101 

to  serve  notice  of  violation  of  ordinance  on  erec- 
tion of  buildings,  .  .  .  .22 
special  committees  of,            .              .              .  102 
Compensation,  board  of  street  commissioners,          .              .    62,68 
clerk  of  board  of  street  commissioners,           62,  68 
fire  department,  members  of,       .                28,  29,  63 
when  forfeited,       .              .          29 
rate-bill  maker  and  assessor,       .              .         62,  82 
sewer  commissioners,             ,              .                 62,  65 
street  commissioner,        .              .  •           .  62 
water  commissioners,              .               .                 62,  91 
of  other  city  officers,       .              .              .62,  63 


116  ORDINANCE    INDEX. 

Constables,  policemen  acting  as,             .             .             .  57 

Conduits,  see  subways,         .             .             .             .  -97 

construction  of,                          .             .             .  97 

Contagious  diseases,  see  health, 

Contracts,  ordinances  concerning,           .              .             .  13,  14 

for  supplies,  how  made,                .             .  .80 

not  to  be  assigned  without  assent  of  city,       .  14 

when  binding,      .             .             .             .  .     3,  80 

city  officers  to  have  no  interest  in,     .             .  13 

security  for  performance  of,                      .  .14 

home  labor  on,  to  be  given  preference,          .  13 
for   labor    and    materials,    how    made,    and  by 

whom  kept,             .             .             .             .  13,  14 

proposals  for,  to  be  advertised,                .  .          13. 

proposals  for,  how  made,       .              .             .  13 

street  commissioner  may  make  provisional,  .         70 

for  work  and  materials  for  streets,     .              .  69,  70 

construction  of  subway  conduits,  etc.,  .         97 
Conveyances,  see  public  conveyances. 

Corporation  counsel  powers  and  duties  of,                .  5,  6,  7 

duties  of,  in  claims  for  damages  against  city,  5,  6 

salary  of,                        .             .             .  .62 

to  certify  judgment  against  city  when,        .  3 
to    attend  meetings    of  committee  on  claims 

when,       .....  5 

to  approve  of  claims  for  damages,        .  .           6 

Crosswalks,  permitting  vehicles  to  remain  on,  a  nuisance,  49 

assembling  idly  and  in  crowds  on,  a  nuisance,  50 

repairs  of,  contracts  concerning,  &c.,           .  70 


Damages  and  benefits,  see  assessment. 

Dead  animals,  see  nuisance. 

Departments'  books  examined,          .  .  89 


ORDINANCE    INDEX.  117 

Debate,  rules  of,  .....  102 

Drainage,  see  health. 

Drains  and  sewers,  see  sewers. 

Dismissions,  see  fire  department. 

Driving  horses  without  bells,        .  .  .  ..  50 

Dwelling,  see  building. 

Dynamite,  keeping  or  transporting,          ...  87 


Elections,  of  city  officers,  ordinances  concerning,  14,  96 

Engineer,  city,  when  to  make  a  map  of  defective  street  or 

sidewalk,  .....  6 

see  also  surveyor. 

chief,  and  assistant,  see  also  fire  department. 
Erection  of  buildings,  see  buildings. 

ordinances  concerning,  .  15  to  26 

Examination  of  books  of  departments,  .  .  99 

Exhibitions,  see  amusements. 
Expenditures,  health  department,  ...  43 


Fare,  rates  of,  &c.,  how  displayed,  .  .  59,  60 

Fast  driving,  a  nuisance,  ....  50 

Fees  for  trade  license,  prescribed  by  license  committee,  87 

license,  when  paid  to  city  clerk,  ...  9 

license,   public   conveyances,    amount,    and  to  whom 

paid,  59 

sealer  of  weights  and  measures,       .  .  87  to  90 

Fence,  gate,  or  building,  in  streets,  a  nuisance,        .  .          49 

Filth,  a  nuisance,  .  49 

see  also  nuisance. 


118  ORDINANCE    INDEX. 

Finance  committee,  treasurer  to  report  to,  each  month,  7 

to  appoint  rate  maker,                  .  .  •?      81 

to  meet  as  board  of  relief,  when,      .  81 

to  abate  taxes,  when,      .              .  .   .          82 
to  instruct  auditor  in  case  of  deficiency 

in  treasury,                   ...  7 
see  also,  committee. 

Fines,  penalties,  and  forfeitures,  also  see  penalties,  .          30 

Fire,  ordinances  concerning,       .              .              .  26  to  35 

alarm,  false,  penalty,    .             .             .              .  .30 

apparatus,  taking  beyond  city  limits,           .              .  30 

ladders,  penalty  for  removing,               .              .  .31 

district,  prescribed  by  whom,  and  area  of,               .  16 

map  of,             .              .              .              .  .17 

endangering,  penalty  for,  31 
alarm  telegraph  poles  and  boxes,  penalty  for  damaging,      32 

Fire  Marshal,  building  inspector  to  act  as,  25 

duties  of,                       .              .              .  .25 

to  investigate  all  fires,       .              .              .  25 

penalty  for  not  complying  to  order  of,  .          25 

Firearms,  discharging  of  prohibited,       V  32 

Fireworks,  discharging,  penalty,       .  32 

Fire  commissioners,  power  and  duties,  26 

clerk  of,  to  make  pay-roll,           .              .  .30 

written,  order  for  delivery  of  goods,               .  33 

bills,  how  presented  to,  ...          33 

how  approved  by,          ...  33 

to  keep  set  of  books,       .             .             .  -33 

official  acts  of,  how  approved,            .              .  33 

supplies,  how  purchased,  by,      .              .  .34 

to  advertise  for  bids,              ...  34 

finance  committee  to  examine  accounts  of, 

to  make  up  estimates,                 .  .         34 

to  inventory  property,            .              .              .  34 


ORDINANCE    INDEX.  119 

Fire  commissioners,  purchases  to  be  reported  by,  .         34 

bond  of  chairman  of,  .  .  35,  63,  64 

chairman  of,  salary,     .  .  .  34,  62 

companies,  number  and  appointment  of  men  in,     .  26 

absence  of  members  from  fires,  penalty,  .         30 

officers  of,  duties,       .  .  .   ,  26,  27,  28 

clerk  of,  appointment  and  duties,  .  .          28 

foreman  of,  duties,  ...  28 

fines  of  members,  .  .  .  .30 

Fire  department,  fire  commissioners  to  organize  and  control,       26 
consists  of  what,      .  .  .  .26 

annual  inspection,  .  .  .  31 

officers  of,  ....          25 

chief  and  assistant  engineer,    duty   relative 

to  manufacturing  establishments,  .          27 

chief  engineer,  duties,  powers,  and  salaries 

of,  .  .  26,  27,  63 

assistant  engineer,  duties,  and  powers,  27 

dismissal  of  members,  .  .  .31 

compensation  and  pay-roll  of,       .      28,  29,  30,  63 
compensation,  when  forfeited,         .  .          29 

honorary  members  of,  .  .  30 

assistant  engineer  of,  salary,  .          27,  28,  63 

members  of,  salaries,      .  .  26,  28,  63 

district,  map  of,  .  .  .  .  .16 

escapes,    inspector  of  .buildings  to  enforce  laws  con- 
cerning, .  .  .  .  .  .24 

false  alarm  of,  penalty  for  giving,  .  .  30 

implements,  penalty  for  removing  or  using,       .  .          31 

marshal,  inspector  of  buildings  to  act  as,  penalty,  25 

duties  of,          .  .  .  .  .          25 

to  investigate  cause  of  all  fires,  .  26 

Firemen,  how  appointed,      .  .  .  .  .26 

removed  or  expelled,         .  .  30,  31 

substitute,  pay  of,  ...  29 

fines  and  discipline  of,  .  .         28,  29,  30,  31 


120  ORDINANCE    INDEX. 

Fires,  cause  of,  to  be  investigated,                .             .  .29 

endangering,  a  nuisance,                 .              .              .  51 

police  to  attend,          .              .              .              .  .    1      55 

Fireworks  not  to  cause  annoyance,           ...  32 

discharge  of  by  minors,  parents  liable,  .          32 

in  public  streets  or  parks  prohibited,                .  32 

throwing  matches  in  barns  or  buildings  prohibited,      31 

Fishing  in  Shuttle  meadow  lake,               ...  93 

Flues,  how  constructed  in  fire  district,          .             .  ao 

how  guarded,        .....  20,  21 

see  also  buildings, 

Fraudulent  weights  and  measures,  penalty  for  using,    v  .  38 

Funerals,  public,  prohibited  when,                 .             .  .41 

Furnishing  supplies,  etc.,         .  99 


Garbage,  in  streets,  a  nuisance,        .              .              .  44,  49 

nature  of,  and  how  removed,                 .              .  44 

by  whom  removed,             .              .              .  .44 
chairman  and  sanitary  inspector  to  have  carried 

out,  the  provision  of,  ordinance  on,      .  .         44 

meaning  of  the  word,                 ...  44 

violation  of  ordinance  on,  penalty,            .  .         44 

Garden,  or  yard,  trespassing  in,  a  nuisance,        .  50 

Gaslights  and  lamps,  injury  to,  penalty,       .              .  .79 

Grass,  walking  on,  a  nuisance,                  ...  50 

Gun,  see  firearms. 

Gunpowder,  keeping  above  one  pound,  requires  license,  86 

limit  and  mode  of  keeping,        .              .  .86 

transporting  through  city,                  .              .  86 

violating  ordinance  relative  to,  penalty,  .         87 

Gutters  and  sidewalks,  see  sidewalks. 


ORDINANCE    INDEX.  121 

H 

Hacks,  see  public  conveyances. 

to  be  disinfected,  when,                ...  42 
Hall,  public,  unlicensed  exhibitions  in,                       .  .9 
Health,  ordinances  concerning,                .              .  37  to  46 
carriages  and  cars  to  be  disinfected,             .  .          42 
nuisances  abated              ....  39 
building  plans  to  be  approved,         .              .  .40 
penalty  for  violating  ordinance,                .              .  40 
penalty  for  removal  of  contagious  sick,        .  .         42 
penalty   for  violating  ordinance  relating  to  conta- 
gious diseases,  42 
sleeping  rooms,  size  of,                  ...  43 
expenditures  by  committee,  limited,              .  .43 
plumber,  license,              ....  43 
penalty  for  violation  of  plumbers'  laws,        .  .          44 
garbage,  carrier  of,          ....  44 
meaning  of  word  garbage,                  .              .  .44 
violation  of  health  ordinance,       ...  44 
laborers,  how  paid,                .              .              .  45,  63 
milk  inspector,  appointment  and  term,                 .  45 
powers  and  compensation  of,        .  .          45 
annual  report  of,                        .              .  45 
to  have  dealers  registered,             .  .  ^      46 
Health  officer,  city,  see  statute  of  state. 

compensation  or  salary  of,  .  .  62 
duties  of,  .  37,  39,  40,  41,  42 
to  enforce  the  law,  ...  39 
to  quarantine  contagious  cases  or  order  re- 
moval to  proper  place,  .  .  4° 
to  disinfect  houses,  .  .  41 
physicians  to  report  to,  .  .  41 
to  certify  if  danger  is  passed,  .  41 
to  give  consent  for  public  funerals  in  case  of 

contagious  disease,             .             -  4r>  42 


122  ORDINANCE    INDEX. 

Health  officer,   to  give  permit  for  removal,          .  .  41 

to  give  permit  to  enter  city,  .  .          42 

carriages,  &c.,  to  be  disinfected  to  satisfaction  of,        42 

Health  committee,  council  to  appoint,          .  .  -37 

powers  and  duties  of,  .  .         37,  38 

orders,  how  given,  and  penalty  for  neg-    . 

lect,  39,  40 

cases  of  diseases  to  be  reported  to  health 

officer,        ....  40 

public  funerals,  prohibited,         .  .         41 

notices  of,  not  to  be  torn  down,        .  42 

to    report    violations    of    ordinances    to 

prosecuting  attorney,  .  .  43 

chairman  of,  appointment  and  duties,  37 

clerk  of,        ....  38 

not  to  delegate  its  duties  to  one  member,       43 
to  draw  up  rules   concerning  plumbing 

and  drainage,  ...  -39 

may  quarantine  houses,        .  .         40,  42 

milk  inspector,  appointment,      .  .          45 

power,  duties  and  compensation,        45,  46 

annual  report  of,      .  .  .          45 

registration  of  dealers,  .  46 

to  inspect  plumbing  and  drainage,  .         39 

issue  certificates  approving  plumbing,  40 

majority  of,  to  authorize  expenditures,  43 

records  of,  how  and  where  kept,        .  38 

records  of,  to  be  public,  .  .         33 

duties  of  physicians  in  cases  of  contagious  disease,  41 

milk  inspections,          ....  45,  46 

malignant  contagious  diseases,  how  to  be  reported,     40,  41 

penalty  for  removal  of  exposed  clothing,  &c.,  .         41 

physicians  to  report  certain  diseases  to  board  of,  41 

persons    or   articles  exposed    to    disease   not  to    be 

brought  into  city,          ....  42 


ORDINANCE    INDEX.  K'3 

Health,  persons  exposed  to  disease  not  to  attend  school,  &c.,  41 

size  of  sleeping  rooms  prescribed,  .  .  43 

teachers  to  report  contagious  diseases,  .  .  41 

Hearings  before  street  commissioners,  .  .  69 

before  the  common  council,  .  .  .  101 

Hearths,  how  constructed  in  fire  district,             .              .  20 

Hens,  see  nuisance. 

Highways  and  streets,  see  streets. 

Hook  and  ladder,  and  hose  companies,  see  fire  department. 

Hydrants,  access  to,  penalty  for  obstructing,      .              .  94 

I 

Ice  and  snow  on  sidewalk,,  removal  of,                     .  .          73 

Incumbrances  on  railroad  tracks,  ordinances  concerning,  46 

highway,  not  to  be  blocked,                .  .         46 

penalty,                   ....  46 

Inspector  buildings,  see  buildings. 

J 

Janitor  of  city  cuilding,  how  appointed  and  paid,            .  58 
Judgments  against  city  to  be  certified  by  corporation  coun- 

sel, 3 

Jurors,  ordinances  concerning,  penalty,        .              .  .46 


Laborers,  pay  of,                                                               45,  63,  71,  98 

Ladders,  see  fire  department. 

License,  to  keep  and  transport  gunpowder,  .  .  86 

to  make  sales  on  streets,  .  .  .  .  84 

what  revocable  by  license  committee,  .  9 

when  to  be  returned  to  clerk  of  committee,  .  10 

by  whom  granted,  .  .  .  8,  9,  10 

to  be  issued  by  city  clerk,  ...  10 


124  ORDINANCE    INDEX. 

License,  for  public  conveyance,        .  .  .  .59 

.    fees,  to  whom  paid,       ....  9 

fees,  how  fixed,       .  .  .  -59.  84,  85 

for  building,      .  .  .  .  .  je 

required  for  public  exhibitions,      ...  9 

to  be  issued  by  clerk  of  license  committee,       .  9 

street  venders  to  have,        .  ,  .  .84 

committee,  duties  of,     .  .  .      8,  9,  84,  85,  87 

clerk  of,  to  be  city  clerk,          .  .  9 

clerk  of,  duties,      .  .  .  9,  10 

to  fix  fees,        .  .  .  .     9,  87 

see  also  committee. 

Lien,  for  expense  of  connecting  property  with  sewers,  &c.,  71 

for  expense  of  removal  of  ice  and  snow,     .  -73 

Lights,  cigars,  &c.,  in  barns  and  stables,      .  .  .31 

public,  injury  to,  penalty,  ...  79 

street,  to  be  numbered  and  designated  by  number,  79 

Lighting  of  streets,  see  street  lighting. 

M 

Malignant  contagious  diseases,  powers  of  health  committee, 

in  regard  to,.  .  .          40,  41,  42 

physicians  and  teachers  to  report  cases 

of  .....  41 

Manure,  see  nuisance. 

Maps,  how  preserved,      .  .  .  .  .  n 

by  whom  made  and  prepared,  .  .  .11 

materials  for,  how  supplied,  .  .  .  12 

Markets,  health  committee  may  order  purified,         .  .          38 

Materials,  building,  in  streets,  when  a  nuisance,  .  50 

Mayor,  power  and  duties,     ...  7,  65,  67,  101 

assignment  of  contract  requires  assent  of,  .  14 

chief  of  police  under  direction  of,  .  54,  55 

to  approve  salary  orders  of  auditor,        .  .  63 

to  call  meetings  of  city  and  common  council,  .          47 

to  countersign  permits  of  chief  of  police,  .  32 


ORDINANCE    INDEX.  125 

Mayor,  to  sign  certificates  of  honorary  membership  of  fire 

department,  .  ,  .  -3° 

to  sign  warrants  for  collection  of  rate-bills,         .  82 

a  member  of  sinking  fund  committee,  .  .  8 

salary  of,  61 

to  approve  pay-roll  of  street  department,  .          71 

to  approve  pay-roll  of  health  department,  .  45 

to  approve  pay-roll  of  subway  department,  .          98 

new  ordinances  to  be  printed  in  annual  report  of,  53 

Measures,  see  weights  and  measures, 

Meetings,  city   and  common   council,  ordinances  concern- 
ing* 47,  48 
objects  to  be  stated  in  warrants  for,  47 
warrants  for,  how  served,                  .                47 
clerk  of,  to  be  city  clerk,           .              .          48 
common    council,    stated    monthly    and    annual, 

hour  of,  '.  47,  48 

how  called,         ...  47 

rules  governing  and  order  of  bus- 
iness,     .  101,  102,    103,  104 
city,  by  whom  called.       -  47 
special  city  and  council,          ...  47 
Milk,  inspection  of,                ....                 45,  46 
condemned,  penalty  for  selling,  see  statute, 
inspector,  see  health  ordinance,            .              .                45,  46 
Minor,     or    apprentice,     liability    of    parent    or   guardian 

for,  32 

Mortar  beds,  in  streets,  a  nuisance,         ...  50 

Motions,  how  presented,       .....        103 

withdrawal  and  reconsideration  of,  .  103 

precedence  of,  .  .  .  .          103 

N 

Night  soil,  see  nuisance. 
Nitro-glycerine,  keeping  or  transporting,       .  .  .87 


126  ORDINANCE    INDEX. 

Noise,  loud,  in  streets  at  night,  a  nuisance,        .             .  50 
Notice  of  violation  of  ordinance  on  erection  of  buildings, 

how  made,        .              .              .              .             .  22 

Notices,  and  orders,  published  only  once,                  .  .          53 

of  board  of  street  commissioners,  how  given,  69 

Nuisance,  ordinances  concerning,                   .              .  48  to  52 

absence  of  sleigh  bells,             ...  50 

injuring  buildings,  plants,  &c.,                   .  .          50 

dead  animals  to  be  buried  by  owners,              .  51 

night  soil,  how  transported,           .              .  .52 

privies  and  cess-pools,              .             .             .  52 

fastening  animals  to  trees,             .             .  .49 

encroaching  on  highway,         ...  49 

filth  and  privies,,          ....  49 

manure,  garbage  and  stable  bedding,        .  .          49 

foul  water,       .....  49 

offal,  papers,  dirt,  ashes,  &c.,       .              .  .49 

horses  and  wagons  on  crosswalks  and  sidewalks,  49 

injuring  grass  and  shrubbery,        .              .  .50 

making  boisterous  noises,         ...  50 

keeping  swine,       ...  .48 

keeping  pig  pens,         ,  48 

keeping  hens  in  coops,      .              .  48 

playing  ball  in  streets,               .              .             .  51 
shooting  with  sling  or  air  guns  within   the   city 

limits,            .              .              .              ...  51 

endangering  fires,               .  .51 

penalties  for  committing,          .              .              .  51 

privies  and  vaults,  how  built  and  disinfected,  .          52 

failure  to  connect  with  sewer,               .              .  52 

resisting  officers  or  street  commissioner,  .         50 

signs  across  sidewalks,              ...  50 

assembling  in  crowds,       .              .              .  .50 

sliding  down  hill  in  streets,      .              .              .  51 
ringing  bells,          t                            ...          50 


ORDINANCE    INDEX.  127 

Nuisance,  trespassing,     .....  50 

obstructing  streets  with  building  material,  .         50 

speeding  horses,  ....  50 

street  vending,      .  .  .  .  .50 

acts  constituting,  .  .  48,  49,  50,  51 

street  commissioner's  duty  relative  to,      .  .          69 

duties  and  powers  of  health  committee  concern- 
ing,       .  38>  39 

O 

Oaths,  of  city  officers,  65 

Offal,  manure,  etc,  when  a  nuisance,  penalty,  .  49,  51 

Officers,   city,   auditor  to  pay  monthly,    semi-monthly  and 

weekly,        .  .  .  .  63 

disbursing,  to  give  bonds,              ...  64 

resisting,  when  a  nuisance,                   .  51 
Office,  supplies,  see  supplies. 

Order  of  business,  .....        101 

Orders  and  notices  published  only  once,              .              .  53 

of  auditor,  to  specify  nature  of  claims,          .  .            4 

of  auditor,  when  to  be  drawn,     ...  4 

Ordinances,                .             .             .             .             .  3  to  104 

publication  of,  and  certificate  of,                   .  53,  95 

revised,  when  to  take  effect,      .              .  -95 

revised,  not  to  be  published  in  a  newspaper,  95 

copy  of  to  be  recorded,             .             .  -95 

changes  in,  to  be  recommended,     .              .  100 

how  printed,      .             .             .             .  53>  95 

revision  of,  to  take  effect  when,       .              .  95 

record  copy  of,               ...  95 

when  operative,          .             .  53>  95 

former,  repealed  when,  53 

concerning  ordinances,                       .  53>  95 

new,    and    amendments    of,    to    be  printed  in 

annual  report,       .             .             .  ,   53 


128  ORDINANCE    INDEX. 

P 

Papers,  loose,  see  nuisance. 

Parents,  liable  for  acts  of  children  when,  .  .  32 

Parks,  tramping  on  grass  and  injuring,  .  .50 

Party  walls,  see  buildings. 

Pay  roll,  of  street  commissioner,  when  and  how  made,         .          71 
of   fire    department,    how,    when,    and    by  whom 
made,  ...  .  29,  30 

of  health  department,    how,  when,  and  by  whom 

made,      -  45 

of  subway  department,  how  when,  and   by  whom 

made,  98 

Peddlers,  weights,  measures,  and  scales  of,  penalty,        .         84,  85 

to  be  licensed  when,  badge,  .  .  84,  85 

Peddling,  and  auctioneer,  ....  85 

Penalties,  failure  to  comply  with  subway  rules  and  laws,     .          98 

Permits  for  buildings,  see  buildings. 

Petitions  to  council,  how  presented,  .  .  .        102 

Physicians,  see  health. 

Pig  pens,  a  nuisance  when,  .  .  .  .48 

Pipes,   connections  with,   in  paved    street  without    permit, 

prohibited,  .  .  .  .  .72 

Plumbers,    to    make    monthly    reports    of   changes    in    water 

service,  .  .  .  .  .92 

not  to  work  until  approval  of  plans,  .  40 

violating  water  ordinance,  .  .  .92 

Plumbing  and  drainage,  powers  of  health  committee  over,  39 

see  also  health. 

Police,  ordinances  concerning,  .  .  '.     54  to  58 

to  consist  of,  .  .  ...  .          54 

duties  of,  conduct  of,     .  .  .  .         55,  57 

compensation  of,  .  .  .  56,  63 

chief,    and    captain    of,    and    duties,     also    patrol- 
men,         ,  .  .  .  7,  54  to  59,  68 


ORDINANCE    INDEX.  129 

Police,  chief,  and  captain  of,  salaries,  .  .  56,  63 
expenditures  of  how  approved,  .  .54 
permit  of,  relative  to  fire  crackers  and  fire- 
works, .  .  .  .  .32 
to  collect  accounts  due  city,  .  .  8 
licenses  by,  for  public  conveyances,  .  59 
to  issue  licenses  for  discharging  firearms,  32 
to  inform  city  clerk  of  accounts  due  city,  7 
detailed  for  fires.  .  -.  .  58 
to  attend  fires,  .  .  .  .58 
not  to  allow  parties  inside  lines,  who  ex- 

cepted,        .....         58 

to  report  street  lamps  not  lighted,      .  57 

to  report  uncleaned  sidewalks,     .              .  57 

acting  as  town  officer,  etc.,                  .  .          57 

to  be  paid  semi-monthly  by  auditor,         .  63 

engaging  in  private  business  by,  prohibited,  57 

force,  how  constituted,                 ...  54 

qualifications  of,                      .               .               .  .56 

not  to  take  present  or  reward,                   .              .  56 

when  to  wear  badges,               .              .              •  •          55 

supernumerary,  fire  detail,           .              .  54,  58 

to  assign  to  city  their  interest  in  all  taxable  fees,  56 

to  assist  sealer  of  weights  and  measures,               .  90 

to  notify  owner  of  dead  animal  to  bury  the  same,  51 

acts  of,  deemed  tender  of  resignation,                  .  57 

charges  against,  causes  for,                .              .  56,  57 

resisting  or  not  dispersing  at  orders  of,  when  a  nui- 
sance,       ......          50 

commissioners,  powers  and  duties,  .  54,  58 

clerk  of,  salary  ,  63 

to  appoint  janitor  for  city  building,          58 

court,  judge  of,         .  .  .  .  ..          61 

to    approve    expenditures     of    chief    of 

police,  ,  ,  54?  55 


130  ORDINANCE    INDEX. 

Police    court,    clerk    of,    powers,    duties,    salary    and 

bond,  55,  62,  64,  65 

hre,  see  fire  department, 

Posters,  not  to  be  destroyed,  penalty,  .  .          .,  .          10 

Presiding  officer,   see  elections,   meetings,    also  of  common 

council,  ....  102 

President  pro  tern  of  council,  to  be  member  of  sinking  fund 

committee,  .  .  8 

to  call  meetings,  when,      .  .  .  .47 

when  to  preside  at  meeting  of  council,  .  47 

Printing,  orders  and  notices,  how  published,  .  .          53 

Privies  and  cess-pools,  where  and  how  to  build,  .  52 

to  be  kept  clean  and  disinfected,       .  .  .52 

contents,  how  and  when  conveyed  through  streets,  52 

vaults  of,  penalty  .  .  .  .  52 

offensive,  a  nuisance,       ....  49 

to  be  connected  with  sewers,  .  .  .    ,          .          52 

Prosecuting  attorney  and  assistant   attorney,  see  charter. 

to  prosecute    violations    of    ordinance    on 

health,.          ....  43 

salary  of,  62 

Public  conveyances,  public  carriages,  etc.,  ordinances  con- 
cerning, 59  to  6 1 
what  deemed  such.       -  59 
how  licensed,                                       .                59 
violation    of    ordinance    relative    to, 

penalty  60,  61 

rates  of  fare  in,  59,  60 

owner's  name,  etc.,  on,      .  60 

penalty  for  violation  of  section   i,    2, 

3>  4,  5>  60 

penalty  for  violating  section  7,  on,  61 

license  fee  for,  59 

waiting  stand  of,  60 


ORDINANCE    INDEX.  Igl 

Public  hall,  what  deemed  such,  o 
unlicensed  exhibitions  in,  penalty,  2 
Public  works,  committee  of,  membership  list  of,  100 
chairman  and  clerk,  election  of,  -       100 
meetings  of,                                .  100 
duties  of,  -       ioo 
ordinance,     changes    in     to    be    recom- 
mended, -       ioo 

Q 

Quarantine  and  quarantined  houses,  42 

of  malignant,  contagious  diseases,  40,  41,  42 

warning  notices,  interfering  with,  penalty,  42 

Questions,  times  to  speak  upon,  -  -  103 

on  parliamentary  ruling,  how  decided.  104 


Racing  horses  in  streets,  a  nuisance,  .          50 

Railroad  tracks,  ordinance  concerning  incumbrances  on,  46 

Rate-bill  maker,  appointment  and  duty,  oath,-  .                 Si,  82 

pay  of,  qualification,  62,  82 

Records  of  city  surveyor,  n 

committee  on  licenses,  10 

city  clerk,  7,  47 

auditor,  6,  7 

committee  on  street  lighting,  .          79 

street  commissioner,      -  70 

street  commissioners,  68 

sewer  commissioners,  66 

fire  commissioners,  -28,  33 

subway  commissioners,  97 

chief  of  police,  32,  59 

chief  engineer,  26,  27 

committee  on  buildings  and  encroachments,  15,  22 


132  ORDINANCE    INDEX. 

Records  of  building  inspector,  25 

committee  on  health,  38 

city  and  common  council,  city  clerk  to  properly 

index,      -  48 

Rentals,  subways,  98 

Reports  of  all  kinds,  to  be  read,       .  101 

of  sewer  commissioners,  67 

street  commissioner,  70 

subway  commissioners,  97 

fire  commissioners,  27 

police  commissioners,                   .  54 

treasurer,  78 

water  commissioners,  91 

chief  engineer,  27 

Resignation,  acts  of  policemen  involving,  56 

Resisting  officers,  a  nuisance,  50 

Restriction  of  commission,  ordinance  concerning,  99 

auditor  to  make  quarterly  reports,  99 

bond  of  chairman  of  police  commissioners,  99 

examination  of  books  of  departments,  99 

furnishing  supplies,  penalty,  99 

Rewards,  policemen  forbidden  to  receive,  56 

Roofs,  how  built  within  fire  district,        -  20 

Rules  of  common  council,  suspension  of,     -  101  to  104 

Rules  of  debate  at  council  meetings,  102 

Rules  and  regulations,  use  of  subway,,  98 

Rules,  suspension  of,  -       104 

S 

Salaries,    of   city    officers  and  powers  of   council    relative 

to,  6 i  to  63,  97 
employees,  61  to  63,  97 
of  chief  and  captain  of  police,  56,  63 
of  members  of  police  force,  conditional  on  assign- 
ing fees,                                             .  56,  63 


ORDINANCE    INDEX.  133 

Salaries,  when  and  how  to  be  paid,  63 

and  bonds,  ordinances  concerning,  6 1  to  65 

and  penalties  of,  bonds,  64 

disbursing  officers  and  committee.  64 

surety  bonds  required,  duties  of  mayor,  65 

Sales  on  streets,  what  require  license,  84,  85 

Sanitary  inspector,  appointment,  qualifications  and  duties, 

37,  38»  40 

to  investigate  plumbing  and  drainage,        -  39 

to  establish  rules  concerning  plumbing,  39 

to  issue  certificates  approving  plumbing,  40 

salary  of,  62 

Scales,  see  weights  and  measures. 

Schools,  see  health. 

Sealer  of  weights  and  measures,  see  weights  and  measures, 

87  to  89 

Sewers  and  drains,  ordinances  concerning,  65  to  67 

steam  in,  66 

new,  66 

bills,  how  paid,  66 

connections,  when  to  be  made,  52,  67 

commissioners,  powers  and  duties,  66,  67 

Sewer  commissioners,  to  keep  record  of  their  official  pro- 
ceedings,     .  .  .  .66 
annual  report  of,                .              .  66 
bonds  of,         .              .              .                 64,  65 
to  supervise  cleaning  and  repairs,  66 
bills  of  sewer  department,  how  paid,            66 
consent  of,  required  for  sewer  connec- 
tions.           .              .              .          66,  67,  72 
to  accompany  report  to   council   with 

map,  etc.,  .  .  .67 

compensation  of,  .  .         62,  65 

to  report  monthly  to  council,  .          65 


134  ORDINANCE    INDEX. 

Sewer  commissioners,  contracts  for  labor  and  material,  how 

made,  .  .  .  .13 

clerk  of,  salary,     ...  62 

to  require  permit  for  digging  up  streets,      67 

Sewers,  steam  or  air  forced  in,  ...  66 

city  surveyor  to  make  annual  report  as  to,  .          12 

connection  with,  to  be  made  before  paving  streets,         70 
connections  with  from  adjacent  streets,  permits  for,        67 
estimate  of  expense  of,  to  accompany  recommend- 
ations for,  .  .  .  .  .66 

Shavings,  straw,  hay,  etc.,  endangering  property,  a  nuisance,      51 
Sheriff,  city,  bond  of,  .  .  .  .  .64 

when  to  warn  city  and  common  council  meetings,  47 

salary  of,       .  .  .  .  .  .62 

Shuttle  Meadow  lake,  boating  and  fishing  prohibited  in,  93 

Sidewalks  and  gutters,  when  to  be  paid  for  from  street  im- 
provement fund,      .  .  77 
horse  or  other  animal  on,  a  nuisance,                   .          49 
driving  horse  across  at  gait  faster  than   a  walk, 

a  nuisance,       .    v          .  .  .  .49 

assembling  idly  and  remaining  in  crowds  on,   a 
'nuisance,          .  .  .  .  .50 

snow  and  ice  on,        .  .  .  57,  73 

unlicensed  trade  on,  a  nuisance,  .  .          50 

defects  in,  complaints  concerning,  etc.,      .      69,  71,  72 

defective,  claims  on  account  of,  5 

encroachments  upon,  ...  49 

obstructions,  prohibited,  .  .  .71 

penalty  for  not  filling  openings,  etc.,  in,  72 

Signs  across  sidewalks,  without  permit,  a  nuisance,  50,  72 

Sinking  fund  committee,  how  constituted,  and  duties  of,  8 

use  of  funds  of,  how  limited,        .  .  8 

Sleds,  sliding  down  hill  on,  when  and  where  a  nuisance,  51 

Sleeping  rooms,  see  health. 


ORDINANCE    INDEX.  135 

Sleigh  bells,  driving  without,  a  nuisance.  .  .  50 

Smoke-pipes  entering  flues,  how  guarded,  .          21 

Snow  and  ice,  see  also  sidewalks,  ...  73 

on  sidewalks  to  be   removed  at  owner's  ex- 
pense, or  occupant,       ...  73 
Special  meetings,  of  city  and  common  council,  how  called,          47 
Stables,  and  barns,  lights,  etc.,  in,                         .              .  31 
Standing  rules  of  council,      ....          101  to  104 

Station  house,  in  charge  of  chief  of  police,          .  .  54 

Stationery,  required  by  city  surveyor,  how  furnished,  .          12 

see  also,  supplies. 
Steam,  in  sewers,       .  .  .  .  .  .66 

Streets,  ordinances  concerning,  .  .  68  to  77 

excavations  in,  .  .  „'  .          71 

building,  gate,  or  fence,  or  playing  ball  in,   a  nui- 
sance, 49,  51 
building  materials  in,  how  guarded,  penalty,      .  74 
digging  up  or  obstructing,  penalty,                 .          71,  72,  73 
fire-crackers,  fire-works,  and  bonfires  in,             .                32 
connecting  property  with  pipes  in,  penalty.               .          72 
erection  and  maintenance  of  signs,  not  permitted  in,       72 
erection  of  posts  in,  penalty,             .              .              .72 
opening  of,  penalty,        .              .              .              .                73 

snow  and  ice  on  walks  of,  ...          73 

grades    to  be  changed  only  by   order    of  common 

council,  .  .  .  74 

neglect    to   make    or    pave   sidewalk,   or  gutter  in, 

lien,  .     .  74,  75 

digging  up  of,      .  67 

accepted,  when,         .  .  .  .  .74 

crosswalks,  when  ordered  in,  .  .  75 

curb,  required,          .....          75 

hearings  required,  ...  75 

paving,  other  than  macadam.  .  .  75,  76 


136  ORDINANCE    INDEX. 

Streets,   notice  signed  by  mayor  or  city  clerk,    .  .  75 

report,  referred  to  board,     .  .  .  .76 

assessments  of  benefits  and  damages,      .  .  76 

proportion  of  cost,  borne  by  property  owner  abut- 
ting, 76,  77 
opening  or  laying  out,  without  consent,  penalty,  73 
refusing  to  fill  excavations,  or   remove  obstructions 

in,  penalty,  .  .  .  .  .72 

depositing  offal,  dead  animals  in,  etc.,  a  nuisance,  49 

mortar  beds,  and  building  materials  in,  a  nuisance,          50 
city  surveyor  to  make  annual  report  concerning  im- 
provements in,  .  .  .  .12 
defective,  claims  on  account  of,  6 
defects  in,  repairs  of,  complaints  concerning,  etc.,    69,  70 
blocking  of,  by  railroad  companies,         ,              .                67 
committee  on,  duties  of,       .              .             .        5,  68  to  77 
chairman  of,  salary  of,           .              .                62 
labor  account,  how  paid,              .              .              .         62,  71 
venders,  to  have  a  license,                 .              .              .84 
scales  of,  to  be  inspected,          .              .                87 
bonds,  city  authorized  to  issue,    see  special  acts  of 

Conn.,  1895,  pp.  396-7. 

assessments,  benefits  not  to  exceed  damages  and 
costs,  to  be  paid  to  and  from  street  improvement 
fund,  ...  77,  78 

excavating  or  obstructing,  prohibited,  penalty,  71,  72 

excavating  paved,  without  permit,  penalty  for, 
excavations  and  obstructions  of,  bond  to  be  given, 
encroachments  on,  a  nuisance, 
obstructions  of,  a  nuisance, 

when  paved,  property  owners  to  connect  with  sew- 
ers, etc.,  liens,  .... 
injuring,  by  water,  prohibited, 
pouring  garbage  on,  prohibited, 
obstructions  in,  lamps  to  be  placed  at,  penalty, 
vending  on,  a  nuisance, 


ORDINANCE    INDEX.  137 

Streets,  ordinances  concerning  streets,          .  .  68  to  77 

commissioner,  election,  term  of  office,  and  bond,  69 

duties  and  compensation,       7,  62,  69  to  77 

resisting,  when  a  nuisance,  .  50 

to  inform  city  clerk    of  claims  due 

city,  .  7 

bills  of,   to    be    approved    by  street 

commiteee,       .  .  .  4,  5 

contracts  for  labor  and  material  by, 

how  made,        .  .  .         13,  14 

to  keep  streets  free  of  nuisances,  69 

to    prescribe    manner     of     moving 

buildings,  .  .  .70 

to  make  provisional  contracts,  70 

to  pay  workmen,  when,         .  .          71 

when  to  remove  ice  and  snow,     .  73 

commissioners,  duties,  salaries  of,  .  62,  68 

clerk  of,  salary,  .  .         62,  68 

compensation,      .  .  62,  68 

notice  of  hearing,  .  .  69 

proceedings  in  assessment  of  dam- 
ages and  benefits  by,  ..       68,  69 
to   assess  benefits  for  sewer  connec- 
tions from  adjacent  street,        .  68 
department,  workmen  of,  auditor  to  pay  weekly,        63,  71 
impovement  fund,  treasurer  to  report  annually  con- 
cerning,                  ....                        78 
improvement  fund,  object  of,                    .             .     77  to  78 
ordinances  concerning,                  77»  7  8 
cost  of  walks,  etc.,                               77 
receipts,             .                                    7^ 
benefits  and  damages,                          78 
lighting,  ordinances  concerning,       .                               78,  79 
apparatus,  penalty  for  injuring,                              79 
committee,  duties  of,           ,             ,               78,  79 


138  ORDINANCE    INDEX. 

Streets,  lighting,  committee  to  keep  a  record,      .  79 

to  make  a  map  of  lights,  .          79 

lamps  designated,     .  79 
under  control  of  committee   on,   subject  to 

council,                 .              .  78 

lights,  policemen  to  report  as  to,  57 
Substitute  judge,  see  city  court. 

Superintendent  of  electrical  department,  ordinance  concern- 
ing, .      35  to  37 
appointment  of,                      .              .  -35 
removal  of,  how,             .  35 
duties  of,     ....  35 
to  inspect  buildings,        .  36 
to  remove  wires,      ...  36 
may  be  member  of  fire  department,  36 
salary  of,      ...  36,  63 
permit   to   be  obtained           .  36 
to  stop  work  until  permit  is  obtained,  37 
to  regulate  wires  across  highway,  .                37 
Supplies,  ordinances  concerning,      .              .  80 
supplies,  order  blanks,                   .          .  80 
other  than  office  supplies,               .             .  80 
when  bills  not  binding,              .              .  80 
furnished  by  commissioners,  cause  for  removal,  99 
committee  on,  authority  to  make  contracts,  .                  3 
office,  how  contracted  for  and  distributed,  .         80 
Surveyor,  city  ordinance  concerning,            .              .  n,  12 
to  have  custody  of  maps,  etc.,             .  .                n 
to  designate  street  lines,                 .             .  .          1 1 
vacancy,  how  filled,                  .             .  .                1 1 
bond  of,                 .             .              .             .  .12,  64 
compensation  of,                       .             .  12,  62 
office  rent  of,                      .             .             .  ,12 
assistant  of  and  salary,            .             .  .                12 
how  and  when  elected,  and  term  of  office,  ,         1 1 


ORDINANCE    INDEX.  )3fl 

Surveyor,  duties  of,          .  .  .  .  .         u,  12 

to  keep  a  field  book,          .  .  .  .n 

to  make  annual  report  to  council,          .  .  12 

Subway,  ordinances  concerning,       .  .  .  96  to  99 

wires  to  be  placed  in  conduits,  .  .         97,  98 

rentals,  amount  of,  ....          98 

rules  and  regulations,  ...  98 

penalty,  failure  to  place  wires  in  conduits,        .  98 

pay  of  laborers,       ....  98,  99 

contracts  approved  by  common  council,  .  97 

salaries  of,  ....  62,  97 

clerk  of,  salary,     .  .  .  .  63,  97 

bonds  of,  ....  64,  97 

recommendation  of  bids  and   proposals  for  con- 
struction, or  other  work,  to  be  ratified  by  council,      97 
commissioners,  appointment,  .  .  96 

vacancies,  how  filled,          .  .          96 

to  be  trustees  of  funds  and  certifi- 
cates of  debt,      .  .  .96 
attend  to  construction,               .  97 
have  supervision,   .              .              .97 
keep  records  of  acts,                  .                97 
make  report  to  common  council,             97 
Swine,  keeping  of,  when  a  nuisance,        ...                48 


Tax  rate  bill  maker,  oath,  compensation,                    .  62,  82 

collector  to  report  back  taxes,          ...  83 

to  report  delinquent  tax  payer,       .              .  83 

to  pay  treasurer,           .              .              .  .83 

Taxes,  ordinances  concerning,                  .              .              .  81  to  83 

levied  on  last  town  assessment  list,                  .  .          81 

abatement  of,         .....  82 

uncollected  to  be  reported  by  auditor,     .              .  82 


140  ORDINANCE    INDEX. 

Teachers  to  report  cases  of  contagious  diseases,       .  .         41 

\ 
Tie  vote,  .  .  104 

Trade,  unlicensed,  on  sidewalks,  a  nuisance,  .         50 

ordinances  concerning,  ,  .  84  to  89 

license  required  in,  ...  84,  85 

in  rags,  etc.,  fee,        .  .  .  .  .86 

keeping  of  gunpowder,  ...  86 

selling,       "          "       .  .  .  .  .86 

transportation,    "  .  .  .  .  86 

penalty,  relating  to  gunpowder,          .  .  .87 

nitro    glycerine   or   dynamite,    license  required  and 

how  fixed,  .  .  .  .  .87 

sealer  of  weights  and  measures,  apparatus,  .  87 

compensation  of       .          88 

penalty,  unlawful  use  of  weights  by,      .  .  88 

sealer  to  visit   all   places  to    inspect  scales   of  ped- 
dlers, etc.,          .....  88 

to  weigh  hay  and  coal,  .  .  .  .89 

in   case  of  refusal   to  have  hay   and   coal  weighed, 

penalty,       ......          90 

to  keep  record,  report  fee,  .  .  90 

police  to  assist,  .  .  .  .  .90 

penalty  for  hindering  or  obstructing,         .  90 

Treasurer,  city,  salary  of,  .  .  .  .61 

auditor's  order,  when  necessary  for,  v   .  3 

order  of,  paying  orders  and   receipts  for  money 

received,     .....  4 

member  of  sinking  fund  committee,         .  .  8 

receipt  given  to  city  clerk,  etc.,          .  .  4 

report  of,  on  street  improvement  fund,  .  78 

to  report  to  committee  on  finance  each  month,  7 

Treasury,  city,  money  for  permits  to  be  paid  into,  .          23 

Tree,  shrub,  or  plant,  injuring,  a  nuisance,          .  .  50 

Trespassing,  in  gardens  and  yards,  .  .  49,  50 


ORDINANCE    INDEX.  Ul 

V 

Vacancies  in  office,  when,  how,  and  by  whom  filled,        n,  14,  96 

Vehicles,  see  also  public  conveyance. 

ordinances  concerning,  .  .  .         67,  68 

stoppage  of,  in  emergency,  penalty,  .  67,  68 

stationary,  on  crosswalks,  a  nuisance,  .  49 

owner's  name,  number  of  license  and  rates  of  fare, 

how  displayed  on,     ....  60 

Venders  of  goods  on  public  streets,    require  license,   pen- 
alty, 84,  85,  86 
licensed  by  State,                 .             .             .  .85 

Voting,  members  of  council  excused  from,  .  .        104 

W 

Waiting  stand  for  public  carnages,  ...  60 

Walks,  see  sidewalks. 

Walls,  see  buildings,  fire  district. 

Warrants,  for  city  and  common  council  meetings,  .          47 

for  collector  of  rate  bill,          ...  82 

Wash,  or  dirty  water,  when  a  nuisance,         .  .  .49 

Water,  ordinances  concerning,  .  .  .  91  to  94 

commissioner,  acting,  duties  and  compensation,          62,  91 
to  act  as  clerk  of  board,  .  91 

board   of,    chairman   of,   salary   and 

bonds,  .  .  62,  64,  91 

powers  and  duties,  13,  64,  91,  92,  93,  94 
annual  report  of,  .  .  91 

bonds  and  compensation  of,  62,  64,  65,  91 
written  consent  of,  when  required,  92,  93 
may  shut  off  water,  when,  penalty, 

92,  93»  94 

to    enforce     ordinance     prohibiting 
boating  and    fishing    at   Shuttle 
Meadow,  .  .  -93 


142  ORDINANCE    INDEX. 

Water,  commissioner,  and  employees  exempt      .             .  93 
chairman  of,    to  be  acting  commis- 
sioner,     .             .             .             .  91 
clerk  of,  salary,          .              .  62,  91 
contracts  for  labor  and  materials  by, 

how  made,               .             .             .13 
to  be  judges  of  waste  of  water,  92 
hydrants,  penalty  for  opening  or  obstructing,             .  94 
penalty  for  letting  on  water  shut  off  by  commission- 
ers, 93 
waste  of,  penalty,               .              .              .              .  92 
using  or  introducing,    without   consent    of  commis- 
sioners,              .              .              .              .              .  92 
to  require  permit  to  dig  up  streets,  laying  water  main 

outside  city  limits,  and  in  unaccepted  streets,  94 

to  see  that  ordinances  are  enforced,            .             .  94 

Water  mains,  petitions  for,  how  acted  upon,       .             .  94 

Weights  and  measures,  inspection  and  sealing,         .         87,  88,  89 

unsealed,  penalty  for  using,        .             .  88 

additional  inspection  of,  expense  of,            .  87 

fraudulent,  penalty  for  using,                   .  88 

sealer    of,     appointment    and     duties     of, 

.     87,  88,  89,  90 

to  visit  markets,  etc.,              .             .  88 

assistance  of,  by  police,                .  90 

penalty  for  obstructing,          .              .  90 
compensation,       .              .              -63,  88 

to  enter  buildings  when,         .              .  g8 

to  weigh  hay  and  coal,     .              .  89 

refusing,  penalty  for,               .              .  90 

to  keep  records,                 .             .  90 

reports,  and  fee  of,.                .             .  90 

Wires,  dead,  to  be  removed,  36,  37 

dangerous  and  defective,  to  be  remedied,      .  36,  37 

parties  to  remove  dangerous  and  defective,  .  36 


ORDINANCE    INDEX.  143 

Wires,  parties  refusing  to  comply,  to  be  reported,  .         36 

in  buildings,  permit  required,        ...  36 

not  to  be  put  up  without  permit,         .              .  .         37 
not  to  cross  public  highway  less  than  twenty-one  feet 

in  height,  37 

to  be  placed  in  conduits,  (  subway  ),                     .  97 

Wooden  buildings,  see  buildings, 

Woodwork,  to  be  separated  from  chimneys,  etc.,  .         20 


Yeas  and  nays,  see  rules,  .  .  .  .  103 


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